Elements Quotes

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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
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by… — Henri Bergson
Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral… — Madame de Stael
A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness. — Harvey Cushing
Singing shows are fun. Every viewer has their own opinion. We all know whether we think a voice sounds good or not. There's a play-along… — Mark Burnett
In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach… — Ruth Benedict
False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social… — Lord Acton
When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because… — Ken Burns
Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. — Ernst Mach
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work… — Julian Barnes
I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation. — Anthony Burgess
The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat… — William Least Heat-Moon
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements. — Douglas Coupland
We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary… — William H. Gass
The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British… — Martin McGuinness
I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as… — Graham Nelson
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea… — Sam Neill
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch… — Frank Ocean

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