Essentials Quotes - Page 37

Those beliefs about the essential goodness or beauty of the world are fundamentally paper-thin bullshit. There's not an essential belief that isn't a contingent belief. It could all be destroyed in a second, at any second. And I have an issue with that.

But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

For me, environment is all. Place — as I was saying about my students — is absolutely essential.

Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around.

I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.

A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate.

Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.

Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.

Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.

The Intelligent Design movement starts with the recognition that "In the beginning was the Word," and "In the beginning God created." Establishing that point isn't enough, but it is absolutely essential to the rest of the gospel message.

A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and balance are also essential to true love.

Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions.

He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.

There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.

Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills.