Element Quotes
1055 quotes by 914 authors
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I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
— David Attenborough
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
— Paul Auster
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
— Irving Babbitt
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We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.
— Michelle Bachelet
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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
— Bruce Barton
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
— William Bernbach
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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
— Irving Berlin
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I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
— Mary J. Blige
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I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels…
— Russell Brand
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
— Joyce Brothers
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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
— Steve Buscemi
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I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the…
— Herman Cain
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation…
— Jimmy Carter
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The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It…
— Julian Casablancas
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Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
— Willa Cather
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying…
— Willa Cather
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