It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.
Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love
God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. . . . One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.
Music, I suppose, will be the thing that sustains me in the time of my life when I am too old for sex and not quite ready to meet God. It has always been an essential part of me.
Stillness is your essential nature.
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
It is a fact that the Left routinely resists, then as now: Americans fought and died in Vietnam for freedom, just as they are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan today. Whatever mistakes generals and policymakers have made along the way cannot detract from that essential truth - which should be a part of any reliable history.
The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.
You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.
Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.
Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.
We live in an essential and unresolvable tension between our unity with nature and our dangerous uniqueness. Systems that attempt to place and make sense of us by focusing exclusively either on the uniqueness or the unity are doomed to failure. But we must not stop asking and questing because the answers are complex and ambiguous.
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.