Elements Quotes · Page 94

Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.

— Swami Vivekananda

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

— Nigella Lawson

I think what will happen with Donald Trump is there are going to be certain elements of his temperament that will not…

— Barack Obama

My work with churches has led me to the conclusion that the single most important element in having an effective and life-changing…

— Phil Pringle

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more…

— Paul Di Filippo

At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk…

— Randy Weston

I think that there shouldn't be an age limit to become a boss, so having that element is really important.

— Zendaya

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

— Michael Arad

Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two…

— Ang Lee

In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them…

— Russell L. Ackoff

Every animal on the planet attracts mates with the goal of reproduction. Frogs swell their bodies. Male gorillas beat their chests. Have…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write…

— Isabel Allende

Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant…

— Walter Lang

We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great…

— Bertrand Russell

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching…

— Brian Boitano

We continue to receive reports that the morale of some elements is being damaged, .. They are being affected by the impunity…

— John Day

My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out…

— Sam Hamill

Once you've got a concept and a sense of themes and what it's about, then you can start to add your plot…

— Shane Black

In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions…

— Aristotle

Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid.…

— Sam Hamill

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?'…

— Snoop Dogg

It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the…

— Leo Tolstoy

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the…

— Max Weber

Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making…

— Michael Ventura