#essence

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#becomes #begins #between #death #emotion

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#care #essence #everything #government #health

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#acting #creative #essence #frees #getting

Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New Orleans, it's a special place to me. We been doing it since the beginning. We did it when it was in Houston, but there's nothing like New Orleans. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#back #because #been #beginning #brought

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#loneliness #nixon #richard #richard nixon

It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love. It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous in the only ways we know how. ↗

— Bryana Johnson

#free-verse #hamlet #poetry-life #shakespeare #the-quintessence-of-dust

[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish species. Past human greatness has proven that when challenged, love can overpower impulsive instinct, and in essence, the vilest aspects of our nature. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#essence #flaw #human #human-condition #human-nature

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#essence #future #gist #horizon #meaning

Feel your emotions, Live true your passions, Keep still your mind. ↗

— Geoffrey M. Gluckman

#ineffable #inspirational #living #loving #passion

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you. ↗

— Genevieve Bujold

#anything #character #essence #feel #get