#essential

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#gifted #leaves #person #point #rest

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#city #city hall #down #essentially #group

The Democrats have essentially decided to move more toward central power, control of just about every aspect of our culture and economy. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#aspect #central #control #culture #decided

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#deny #essential #great #kind #petty

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. ↗

— Alice Walker

#black #despair #enough #entirely #essential

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#actor #basic #essential #great #himself

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#essentially #i #i think #journey #life

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#because #destructive #essentially #forbidden #hatred

And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal. ↗

— Steve Case

#cartridge #essentially #game #idea #interactive

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#figures #generation #grand #heroes #history