Essence Quotes
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If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
R. C. Sproul -
Pure thought is itself the divine existence; and conversely, the divine existence, in its immediate essence, is nothing else than pure thought.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
Patricia Velasquez -
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
T. H. White -
In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.
Philippe Halsman -
She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
Wayne Thiebaud -
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
Oscar Wilde
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The very essence of success is practice.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
Vidal Sassoon -
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.
H. P. Blavatsky -
Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.
Chris Cornell Audioslave -
Time is of the essence. We must act now if we are to have the maximum possible opportunity to contain a pandemic.
Margaret Chan -
Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.
Cary Grant
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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
Jane Austen -
Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.
George Benson -
He John Hampden knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild -
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
Bergen Evans -
The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.
T Bone Burnett -
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
William Shenstone -
Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
Lance Secretan -
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
Stevie Wonder -
Slime is the sticky essence of a gastropod’s soul, the medium for everything in its life: locomotion, defense, healing, courting, mating, and egg protection. Nearly one-third of my snail’s daily energy went into slime production. And rather than making a single batch of “all-purpose” slime, my snail had a species-specific recipe for each of these needs and for different parts of its body. It could adjust the ingredients, just as a good cook would, to meet a particular occasion. And in a catastrophic accident in which a snail is squashed, it can release a flood of lifesaving, medicinal mucus packed with antioxidants and regenerative properties.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey