Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
William Law

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.
Paul Dirac

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
Yitzhak Rabin

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.
Ho Chi Minh

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
Denis Diderot

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
Orson Welles

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
Isadora Duncan

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Thomas Carlyle

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
Diane Ackerman

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
May Sarton

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Cat Stevens

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
Jackie Collins

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
Brandon Boyd

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sam Houston

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
Barney Frank

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
Barney Frank