Elements Quotes

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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
I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the… — Sylvia Plath
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
Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be… — Sigmund Freud
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
The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets… — Denise Levertov
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
Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures.… — Rex Stout
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
at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is… — Terry Pratchett
Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father,… — Amy Tan
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
For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at… — Barack Obama
If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can… — Salman Rushdie
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

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