A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
Ronald Knox
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
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Mose Allison
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
Julia Ward Howe
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
Stewart Alsop
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.
Marc Bloch
In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
Philipp Melanchthon
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Meryl Streep
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
Avicenna
One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
Arthur Henderson
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller
The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
Robert Collier
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
Harold Wilson
The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.
Cynthia Nelms
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
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