Element Quotes

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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice. — Mahatma Gandhi
Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical. — Benjamin Disraeli
Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child… — Rose Macaulay
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the… — Walter Lippmann
A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like… — Kristin Hannah
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. — Jean Giraudoux
Even in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship to water, because… — Roni Horn
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel… — William Ralph Inge
What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there… — Andre Gide
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct. — Richard Le Gallienne
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses… — Richard Le Gallienne
In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there… — Elizabeth Bowen
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead
We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did… — Jacques Barzun
The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance. — Henry A. Kissinger
All inquiries carry with them some element of risk. — Carl Sagan
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate… — John Stuart Mill

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