I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

Listening is the essence of anything.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Quickness is the essence of the war.

The whole essence of humanitarian work and the Geneva Convention is that neutral, impartial organisations can operate during war.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Risk is the essence of any reward - to try the thing that no one else is willing to try.

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.