Elements Quotes · Page 23

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

— Bill Toomey

The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

— Ronald Reagan

The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.

— Milan Kundera

Element of surprise is really fun for me in comedy. I have to be surprised, and everything's been done.

— Zach Galifianakis

The society of women is the element of good manners.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

— Carl Jung

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

— Ernst Mach

Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.

— Fernando Pessoa

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or…

— Lemn Sissay

People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a…

— Clint Eastwood

In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is…

— Charles Baudelaire

You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you…

— Janet Fitch

Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the…

— Harold Payson

Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral,…

— Michael Haneke

I'm no expert on pornography. The core element of it, I think, is degradation of women, whatever else goes on. I don't…

— Noam Chomsky

I think its one of the great principles. The element of surprise, I mean, you could take a force that's not nearly…

— Donald Trump

Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant…

— Kay Ryan

While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we…

— Jose Angel Gurria

I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered…

— Neil Sedaka

Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The delicate veins of fancy may be traced, and the rich blood that gives bloom…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I don't think that there is one "authentic" element of American style to identity - it's about a sense of freedom, individuality,…

— Thakoon Panichgul

We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity…

— Henry Clay

In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world…

— Jacques Ellul

There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then…

— William Goldman

Buffett's methodology was straightforward, and in that sense 'simple.' It was not simple in the sense of being easy to execute. Valuing…

— Roger Lowenstein

I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because…

— Charles Lindbergh

The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to…

— Julia Cameron

I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of…

— Sufjan Stevens

How can you worry about pleasing people [critics] and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the…

— Elliot Easton

Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral…

— William Jennings Bryan

Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

— Anonymous

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

— Edith Sitwell

The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

— Bertolt Brecht

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

— Maggie Smith

Vince Russo destroyed the Periodic Table as he only recognises the element of surprise.

— Jim Cornette

The criminal elements here in America are thriving under the Biden Administration.

— Bill Hagerty

Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.

— Anonymous