Nonessentials Quotes

#1. It is pleasant to think that in heaven the divisive issues that seemed so important on earth will no longer concern us as we feast in a fellowship of love. Prayer: Father, make us steadfast in our core beliefs, and make us charitable about nonessentials. Amen.

J. Stephen Lang

#2. In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

Bruce Lee

#3. On the essentials, unity. On the nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity.

Jack Hyles

#4. We do not work for unity; we work to end and erase disunity. Unity is of God; disunity is of man. In matters of doctrine and practice of conscience, our guide should be this traditional saying: In essentials, unity. In nonessentials, liberty. But in all things, love.

Mike Timmis

#5. A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

Louis Kronenberger

#6. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials.

Lin Yutang

#7. Pope John XXIII's motto might be heard here: "In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, and in all things, charity." That is second-half-of-life, hardwon wisdom.

Richard Rohr

#8. I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

Kaitlyn Dever

#9. In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

Alec Baldwin

#10. Tonight, I may get so nervous that I spill my Coke of drop popcorn down inside my top. Oh God, is my red leather halter cut too low? I look down to make sure I'm not wardrobe-malfunctioning.

Miranda Kenneally

#11. One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Oscar Wilde

#12. Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me

Chuck Klosterman

#13. The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

Janet Napolitano

#14. A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

Amos Bronson Alcott