Essential And Nonessential Quotes & Sayings

CLYTEMNESTRA
What ails thee, raising this ado for us?
SLAVE
I say the dead are come to slay the living. — Aeschylus

He's been very distracted the last few days."
"Has he now?"
"And short-tempered." Brenna found her appetite coming back. I'm delighted to hear it. I hope he suffers, the donkey's ass."
Brenna went through the rest of her workday whistling, her mood bright and her hands nimble. She supposed it wasn't very charitable of her to take pleasure in the idea of another's unhappiness, but she was human, after all. — Nora Roberts

I will deny thee nothing:
Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,
To leave me but a little to myself. — William Shakespeare

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president. — Viggo Mortensen

Using which instead of that. That introduces essential clauses while which introduces nonessential clauses. Consider the sentence "Tools that have sharp edges can cause nasty cuts." If you remove the words "that have sharp edges," the sentence loses much of its meaning. The clause is essential. Now consider "Roses, which come in many colors, have thorns on their stems." You can remove "which come in many colors" and the meaning of the rest of the sentence is intact. The clause is not essential. Another way to remember: If the clause obviously needs to be set off by commas, use which. — Charles Murray

Those who fail to distinguish the nonessential from the essential and the essential from the nonessential will, in feeding all wrong thoughts, fail to attain the essential. — Thich Nhat Hanh

In all things essential, unity; in all things nonessential, liberty; and in all things, love. — Thabiti M. Anyabwile

What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found - God's special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is nonessential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord. — Joseph Bernardin

The art of reading, as of learning, is this: ... to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential. — Adolf Hitler

In essential things, unity. In nonessential things, freedom. In all things, love. — Mark Batterson

Happiness is simply collecting and remembering all the good moments in your life ... — Ilsa Madden-Mills

Only you have to keep practicing and remembering. — Frederik Pohl

So we introduced a token system.9 The children were given ten tokens at the beginning of the week. These could each be traded in for either thirty minutes of screen time or fifty cents at the end of the week, adding up to $5 or five hours of screen time a week. If a child read a book for thirty minutes, he or she would earn an additional token, which could also be traded in for screen time or for money. The results were incredible: overnight, screen time went down 90 percent, reading went up by the same amount, and the overall effort we had to put into policing the system went way, way down. In other words, nonessential activity dramatically decreased and essential activity dramatically increased. Once a small amount of initial effort was invested to set up the system, it worked without friction. — Anonymous