“I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.”
Demi Moore
“For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.”
Henri Bergson
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
Aristotle
“Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.”
Camille Paglia
“You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.”
Mel Brooks
“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.”
Charles Darwin