#essence

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#pleasure #spontaneity

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#essence #unity #variety

I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#beautiful #beautiful things #between #career #consistent

Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being . . . my essence . . . is a part of all Being, all Essence. ↗

— Nancy J. Napier

#essence #meditation #experience

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#fairness #leveling #through

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really. ↗

— Karl Urban

#along #because #benefit #comes #doing

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#before #confines #craved #essence #eyes

And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#difference #essence #sacrament #use

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. ↗

— John Fowles

#end #essence #green #hardest #renaissance

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#both #culture #essence #imaginative #limits