Elements Quotes

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Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. — Toyo Ito
This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all… — Garry Kasparov
Finding your element is essential to your wellbeing and ultimate success and, by implication to the health of our organisations and the effectiveness of our… — Ken Robinson
I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is… — Maynard James Keenan
Bare skin is the one and only right criterion for receiving water's gracious acceptance or any acceptance whatsoever from that element. But Pliny also seems… — Janet Lembke
The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression are far too… — Anna Lindh
Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by… — Noam Chomsky
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. — Vida Dutton Scudder
The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements. — Clemens Winkler
Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds… — Nicholas Stern
But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by the non-availability of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and… — Charles Baudelaire
The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too dangerous… — Jeff Cooper
Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of… — Swami Vivekananda
A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes,… — Robert Muller
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is… — Brenda Ueland
Fulfilling the four needs [spiritual, mental, physical, social] in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a "critical mass" of… — Stephen Covey
The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his vision,… — Irving Fisher
Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of… — Charles Lindbergh

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