Elements Quotes

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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
Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from… — Sigmund Freud
I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood… — Edward Abbey
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went beforeâ€”consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And… — George Eliot
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
Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements. — Stellan Skarsgard
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
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death. — Andre Gide
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 absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation. — Albert Camus
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
Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements. — Sylvia Plath
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

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