Quotes of Essentially - somelinesforyou

“ When people are bored it is primarily with themselves. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates. ”

- Mordecai Richler

“ The rules of soccer are very simple. Basically it's this: If it moves, kick it; if it doesn't move, kick it until it does. ”

- Phil Woosnam

“ We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism. ”

- Angela Davis

“ Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts. ”

- Gary Player

“ Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. ”

- John Gay

“ You know, the country is basically peaceful. ”

- Paul Bremer

“ Issuance of equity and of bonds by lower-rated corporations has come virtually to a halt — even investment-grade companies have cut back substantially on their borrowings. ”

- Alan Greenspan

“ So the preparation for this, I was remiss basically. I should be flogged. ”

- Johnny Depp

“ You don't really scoreboard watch because the other teams don't put the other games on the scoreboard like we do,... We basically want to win our game, then when our game is over you ask 'What did they do?'. ”

- Frank White

“ The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen. ”

- Robert L Schwartz

“ All children are essentially criminal. ”

- Denis Diderot

“ The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. ”

- Piet Mondrian

“ Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. ”

- George Santayana

“ A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it. ”

- Charles Fillmore

“ Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment of expression. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless — and absolutely essential. ”

- William Goldman

“ Can it be that man is essentially a being who loves to conquer difficulties, a creature whose function is to solve problems? ”

- Gorham Munson

“ Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust. ”

- Dean Register

“ Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. ”

- Raoul Vaneigem

“ Friendship is essentially a partnership. ”

- Aristotle

“ Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. ”

- Anne Germain De Stael

“ Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. ”

- W. H. Sheldon

“ In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. ”

- Michel Foucault

“ Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat… the redeeming things are not "happiness and pleasure" but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved. ”

- George A. Buttrick
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