The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and ethical. Environmentalism, in short, had become one version of nature religion in the lingering shadow of American transcendentalism.
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
But what I attach great importance to is observation of the movement of colors. It is only in this way that I have found the laws of complementary contrast and the simultaneity of those colors that nourish the rhythm of my vision. There I find the representative essence — which does not arise from a system or an a priori theory.
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: