So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No,… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water… — Gerry Schwartz Copy Share Image
Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes… — Ferdinand Hodler Copy Share Image
The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen Copy Share Image
This is a marvel of the universe: To fling a thought across a stretch of sky-- Some weighty message, or a yearning… — Josephine Preston Peabody Copy Share Image
In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements -… — Jean-Claude Ellena Copy Share Image
We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Try to understand why it is happening, from where it is coming, where the roots are, how it happens, how it functions,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
the life of Jesus recapitulates key elements in the earlier story of Israel. For a moment, as Jesus stands on the mountain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time,… — Plato Copy Share Image
For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In magic I believe I can control certain elements of my environment, I believe I can control certain aspects of my endocrine… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on… — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image
I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop:… — Abbie Cornish Copy Share Image
I think it's keeping a surprise element, so that the audience never gets ahead of you. I like to pull the rug… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential… — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've learned that you can have fun with the fabrics and other elements, but if it's not tailored right,… — James Marsden Copy Share Image
The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, acting took the front seat but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort… — Chrissie Fit Copy Share Image