Element Quotes

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With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy. — Jeanette Winterson
There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer… — Neill Blomkamp
Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is… — Evgeny Morozov
Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better… — Eugene V. Debs
We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to… — Stephen Batchelor
Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will… — Frank Herbert
Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to… — George Eliot
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes… — C.S. Lewis
For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her… — Hans Selye
It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element… — Pope Benedict XVI
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions… — Martin Amis
If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed… — C.S. Lewis
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the… — Rabindranath Tagore
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it. — H.G. Wells
It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie… — Chuck Klosterman
So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh...… — Yann Martel
Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. .… — Stanislaw Lem
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal… — Rebecca Solnit

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