Elements Quotes · Page 13

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

— Plato

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

— Daniel Libeskind

In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

— Ed Asner

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

— Serj Tankian

The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.

— Greg Kinnear

There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.

— Damon Albarn

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

— Stephen Chow

I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.

— Nahum Goldmann

I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable…

— Amy Poehler

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from…

— Matt Smith

Of course I love leather, and I love stingray. So combining the two and adding those gold elements - I always love…

— Olivia Palermo

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however…

— Annie Besant

Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the…

— Ken Robinson

Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoebae to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect…

— Nicholas Lore

There are elements of Piglet that are me: the shyness and the anxieties and fears. Even after all these years. The more…

— John Fiedler

Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we…

— Mark McMorris

As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities,…

— Joshua K. Ingalls

I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from…

— Leonor Fini

Mental hospitals are great for horror movies because they're already scary even without the horror or supernatural elements. This is a place…

— Michael Rasmussen

It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors,…

— Peter Singer

I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of…

— Garth Greenwell

The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put…

— Hannah

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the…

— Anonymous

The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the…

— Eugene Green

We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic…

— Stephen Batchelor

I find what I call the [bleep] side of the industry very difficult. You won't see me at other peoples' premiers. I…

— Jeremy Irons

The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for…

— Vannevar Bush

My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

If time is treated in modern physics as a dimension on a par with the dimensions of space, why should we a…

— Arthur Koestler

Love will push every button, try every faith, challenge every strength, trigger every weakness, mock every value, and then leave you there…

— Marianne Williamson

Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any…

— Lou Gerstner

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

— Bill Maher

Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.

— Sue Grafton

There are elements of Dodd-Frank that clearly need to be curtailed.

— James P. Gorman

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

— Carl von Clausewitz

There's always been a slight twinge of some classical elements in our music.

— Matt Bellamy

Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

— Romano Guardini

My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.

— Haley Joel Osment

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

— Anonymous