Elements Quotes · Page 19

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

— Anonymous

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

— John Malkovich

There are no prog elements to Adrenaline Mob; it's very song-oriented, with shredding and grooves.

— Mike Portnoy

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

— Michael Steinhardt

Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways

— Jacque Fresco

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

— Kingsley Amis

I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so…

— Michael Fassbender

“Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.”

— Sun Tzu

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to…

— Rose Macaulay

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

— Karl Marx

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my…

— Jenna Elfman

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

— James K. Glassman

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

— Seneca the Younger

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of…

— Evelyn Waugh

The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because…

— Lewis Henry Morgan

With some reservation, it can be said that certain democratic elements are present in Georgia as well; but it is very clear…

— Garry Kasparov

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

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

— Garth Greenwell

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

— Leonor Fini

I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost…

— Lucy Corin

Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that…

— Emma Goldman

Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground…

— Peter Gay

Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we're not. For me, it is really…

— Bjork

Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider…

— Eric Foner

Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every…

— David Whyte

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done…

— Richard Branson

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

— Jan Tschichold

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.

— Elias Lyman Magoon

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

— Harry Houdini

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

— Jeff Cooper

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

— Edward Norton

The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.

— John Henry Jowett

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

— Gustav Stickley