Essentials Quotes

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left’s on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

We face an essential need to reach a definition of terrorism that will enjoy wide international agreement, thus enabling international operations against terrorist organizations.

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one’s own prose.

For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.

The essential thing is to run period! And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences… essential to that institution’s ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.