Element Quotes

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I had always wanted to love Eve as Denny loved her, but I never had because I was afraid. She was my rain. She was… — Garth Stein
I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life… — Bertrand Russell
Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps. — Kay Ryan
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity,… — Rebecca Solnit
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read… — Charlaine Harris
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we… — Bertrand Russell
Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the… — Pope Benedict XVI
Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our… — Herman Melville
We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was… — Ian Mcewan
Our element is unending immaturity. — Witold Gombrowicz
Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element. — Audrey Niffenegger
One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live… — Marshall McLuhan
Isabelle and Sebastian? Hardly. Sebastianâ€™s a nice guy â€“ Isabelle only likes dating thoroughly inappropriate boys our parents will hate. Mundanes, Downworlders, petty crooksâ€¦â€ â€œThanks,â€… — Cassandra Clare
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time. — Diane Ackerman
The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human… — W. Somerset Maugham
People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what… — W. Somerset Maugham
How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter,… — Kevin Brockmeier
Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naÃ¯vetÃ©, that fabulous quality that keeps you from… — Steve Martin
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game! — Julie Andrews

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