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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

The very essence of love is uncertainty.

Oscar Wilde

Thinking is the essence of wisdom.

Persian Proverb

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Vincent van Gogh

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Germaine Greer

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

Frank Borman

That's because the name has almost become a brand name. My essence is still me. But that name Corey Hart refers to this an album.

Corey Hart

We take this matter very seriously and realize time is of the essence.

Christine Karbowiak

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

George Orwell

It does the same thing for in essence barrel horses that it does for humans.

Murray Turner

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

John Arbuthnot Fisher

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Stephen Leacock

Time is of the essence. I'm going to deteriorate a little faster than anyone else.

Adam Morrison

They created, in essence, an Eden. It's a popular destination for young families, for anyone actually.

David Greenwood

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

Marilyn vos Savant

So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.

Steve Carlton

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In essence, Dean is paying all that money to someone who is keeping him away from his children.

Dawn Nelson

We'll in essence lose a little bit of tax revenue, but the housing and buildings will be improved.

John Siira

This is the essence of character: the will and ability to put principle into action.

Scott Allen

Time is of the absolute essence if we are to restore the public's trust.

Gerald Parsky

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

Demi Moore

The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure.

Mikhail Baryshinikov

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Jane Addams

Dover's modest curriculum change embodies the essence of liberal education.

Patrick Gillen

The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.

Thomas J. Watson

In essence we are insolvent now.

Scott Provancher

In essence, they seem to be faulting us for not coming up with the information one would get by doing the study.

Deborah Murray

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

Georg Cantor

It's important that we never veer away from the essence of the brand.

David Lipman

We don't like the position we're in. But we feel time is of the essence.

John Culp

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

Ivan Turgenev

Desire is the essence of a man.

Bernard M. Baruch

It's a question of whose ox is being gored. But in essence it is up to the US importer now.

Robert Gruber

I think time is of the essence.

Neal Ormond

Reebok built an edge in the category. Adidas built the athletes in the category. Together, they will control the essence of sports and lifestyle colliding.

Peter Arnell

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Comte De Mirabeau

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

(I Found That) Essence Rare.

Gang Of Four

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Jean Paul Sartre

Time is really of the essence with this as we're trying to get this hospital up and running.

Tom Wells

In essence, they will never be left to wander the streets alone.

Andrew J. Spano

For anyone who's read the books, it will be really fun to see the characters come alive. We believe we've captured the essence of those characters and the essence of those books.

George Nelson

Out of all the things I play with — wood, other media — drawing is the essence. You can't do without it in art.

Bruce Bulger

In essence, the motivation of the attacks on advertising is hostility toward capitalism and egoism.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

It is in essence a breakthrough.

Tariq Aziz

In essence, it's money that has already been authorized. It's not new money, but we're always happy to see legislators working on our behalf.

Ron Cole

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Francis Picabia

If you are hit by identity thieves, time is of the essence. These guys are fast.

Mark Durham

The essence of our proposal is to build a firewall between drug companies and medical practitioners.

David Rothman

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Carl Rogers

At stake in this case is nothing less than the essence of a free society.

Jose Padilla

We never "become one with God" as the metaphysicians or religionists claim. What actually happens is that we become one with Spirit, the essence of God.

Paul Twitchell

The committee is the essence of American political action.

Tim Welch

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

Anne Edwards

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

Michael Porter

Time is of the essence. The city is committed to beginning the project in May to avoid additional escalation in construction costs.

Ruth Pratt

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

Arlen Specter

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

James A. Froude

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

Jeff Sachs

Typically, we would not be able to find money for them. Time is of the essence in these cases.

Richard Gentles

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

Antonio Machado

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Julius Caesar

In essence, his life as he knew it was turned upside down.

Melinda Murray

I found that essence rare, it's what I looked for / I knew I'd get what I asked for.

Gang Of Four

It is an assault upon the very core of what generations of our citizens have been proud to boast of, at home and abroad, as the essence of the Australian character -- the .

Bob Hawke

Moving forward with speed is of the essence right now.

Tom Noland

The formation of the Commission was against the spirit and essence of the 1990 Constitution of Nepal.

Shambhu Thapa

In essence, it will put the taxpayer in control of future tax increases.

Mary Adams

The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.

Nora Volkow

They began to deny it and claimed that they weren't working against us at all. Only after that did we decide to go public. We consider this a breach of our agreements. In essence we were deceived.

Sergei Ignatchenko

I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.

Mary Grandpre

The essence of justice is mercy.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I think, in essence, we don't want to see anything change. We love this town.

Ed Sawyer