Procurement policies of all of the major parastatals, it is a very important element of that processes that will continue. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements,… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. — George Crumb Copy Share Image
There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that… — Rob Dyrdek Copy Share Image
Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with… — Noy Holland Copy Share Image
There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being,… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
What many people don't see is that there are abundant examples of phenomenal opacity: It is one of the most interesting features… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything. — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Well, I think tone is very important with this show [Masters of Sex] because there are certain elements or certain aspects to… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
It is imperative that we find that vital element that brings us alive... the true vitality that waits beneath all occupations for… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I like to have a connection with the elements and the earth. Rock is the skin of the planet, and you can… — Fred Nicole Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Keep out of your mind, and out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Real world movies or shows that are about things that actually happen versus having superpowers, there's a little bit of a fantasy… — Dan Payne Copy Share Image
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle. — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions… — Giacomo Balla Copy Share Image
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Troops must be fed with ammunition and so on but also with information, with images, with visual intelligence. Without these elements troops… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image