#essentials

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. ↗

— Ronald Knox

#cover #enough #essentials #good #interest

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#history #main #minister #prime #prime minister

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#essentials #first #nations #policy #political

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#because #crippled #documentary #documentary film #essentials

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter. ↗

— David Duchovny

#essentials #food #i #just #money

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#effect #essentials #everything #gets #motherhood

I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#could #did #enamored #essentials #got

Obedience is the fruit and proof of love; and the words of the Master are suggestive, "If a man love Me he will keep My words" (John 14:23). One has forcibly remarked, "When people speak of 'essentials' and 'non-essentials' they generally mean by the former what concerns their own salvation, and by the latter those things which only concern the glory of God! ↗

— Alexander Marshall

#obedience #love

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#fire #imagination #middle-ages #obviousness #writing