Elements Quotes

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

I think the notion of success is fairly destructive. You can see elements of this surrounding any band becoming too popular. On the other hand, survival means you are doing fine.

The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.

I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.

A woman whose heart is not touched by the sickness of sorrow and whose hands do not go out in relief where it is in her power to help, lacks one of the elements which make the glory of womanhood.

There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.

When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.

Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.

Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.

I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

Our militant union with peoples which still have to carry on an armed struggle against the colonialists constitutes an important element of our line in international affairs.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

Woman! woman! What a disturbing element you are in the universe - man's universe!

Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.

Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm.

Factions among yourselves; preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy; But deeply skilled in all the principles That usher to destruction.

A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.

The key element of success is a product that matches all of what you've done in your message and your marketing, and all the emotion that has to be transmitted to the consumer through the product.

The suburb was the major element of Australian society.

Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.

Think of destiny more like potentiality because of an element called - free will.

In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.

My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.

I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.

If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

Procurement policies of all of the major parastatals, it is a very important element of that processes that will continue.

The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.

One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.

My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.

It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.

Responsibility and commitment are key elements in meeting obligations.

There was a little element of feeling like a cow.

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.

... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.