Essentials Quotes - Page 26

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit.

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

Everyone longs to be free. Freedom is our essential nature, so my ultimate prayer is that the world is set free to experience the truth and the beauty of our own being.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process does not change the essential content of their work in art, which can only be their life.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.

The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.