Top 100 Element Quotes
#1. The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack.
Gloria Steinem
#2. The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
Giuseppe Mazzini
#3. Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.
Zane Grey
#4. Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by some peculiarly obtrusive element in the outer world, but lapsing again quickly into the happy somnolence of imagination.
Bertrand Russell
#5. Psychiatrist and Auschwitz survivor, Viktor Frankl, stated, ... man is by no means merely a product of heredity and environment. There is a third element: decision. Man ultimately decides for himself!
Alice A. Kemp
#6. Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.
Jim Butcher
#7. Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.
Alec-Tweedie
#8. I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.
Kirsten Dunst
#9. In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.
Coco Chanel
#10. Every creature thinks itself best in its own element, that is the place it thrives in, and enjoys its happiness in; now Christ is the element of a Christian.
Richard Sibbes
#11. I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#12. Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.
Henry Ford
#13. Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it's a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can leads us to error: love is law, but conscious love.
Samael Aun Weor
#14. Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it's probably higher than that.
Jack Dangermond
#15. All knitterly creation stems from one simple element: yarn. It is the baker's flour, the jeweler's gold, the gardener's soil. Yarn is creation, consolation, and chaos all spun together into one perfect ball.
Clara Parkes
#16. 2 days off: Typical weekend.
3 days off: Well rested.
4+ days off: Forget every single element of what it takes to be a functional member of society.
Unknown
#17. More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
Tadashi Yanai
#18. Hence the solution lies in finding a means of so readjusting this exclusive element to the family of nations, that the basis of the Jewish question will be permanently removed.
Leon Pinsker
#20. It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.
Osamu Dazai
#21. The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.
Noam Chomsky
#22. You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
Ian Rankin
#23. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself.
Willa Cather
#25. Update a traditional element of your business with social media designs. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media are hot right now, and leveraging their popularity can make your business stand out, be memorable, and seem fresh and up-to-date.
Anita Campbell
#26. But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
Samuel Alexander
#27. Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#28. All great art contains an element of the irrational.
Edith Sitwell
#30. The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we're able to deliver so many customers that the merchants are very happy with even the smallest number that we can provide.
Andrew Mason
#31. There is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.
Bell Hooks
#32. [L]ook at it from Vicente Fox's point of view. I mean if - if you had a renegade, potential criminal element that was poor and unwilling to work, and you had a chance to get rid of 500,000 every year, would you do it?
Rush Limbaugh
#33. The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.
Rhea Perlman
#34. The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
Barbara Tuchman
#36. Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#37. When the element of hatred is someday universally replaced with love and kindness,humanity will see peace!
Timothy Pina
#38. Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.
Benjamin Disraeli
#39. The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
Lucian Freud
#42. How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
Auberon Herbert
#43. Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#44. The easiest way to disturb or create an element of horror is to take a positive emotion and put it in a negative situation, to create dissonance.
R.R. Hood
#45. Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.
Lincoln Kirstein
#46. Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#47. The greatest polluting element in the earth's environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic fields. I consider that to be a far greater threat on a global scale than warming, or the increase of chemical elements in the environment.
Robert O. Becker
#48. A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.
Charles Lamb
#50. The creative imagination is the essential element of a true scientist, and fairy tales are the childhood stimulus to this quality.
Albert Einstein
#52. All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#53. I think it's keeping a surprise element, so that the audience never gets ahead of you. I like to pull the rug out from audiences, I don't like for them to think they know what's happening next.
Jason Graae
#54. With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
Jeanette Winterson
#55. All girls like guys who are tough. Obviously, riding a motorcycle - I don't want to say that there's a bad boy quality - but there's definitely a tough and macho thing about a guy who rides a motorcycles and that element of danger. That's really sexy.
Marisa Miller
#56. Don't be afraid to put anything on paper because the best art has some element of danger to it and if you hold back then people will kind of be able to tell that you're trying to be something you're not.
Max Bemis
#57. The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation
to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out,they're in that building. Just because we black,
we get along with the killers? What is that?
Tupac Shakur
#58. There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#59. My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.
John Wesley
#60. I have taken on virtually every element of the big money establishment, whether it's the Koch brothers, and the big energy companies, whether it's the industrial complex, whether it's Wall Street. I have taken on the drug companies. I have taken on the insurance companies.
Bernie Sanders
#61. In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
#62. A lot of people don't think about it, but the Bible has every horror element that you can imagine. It's got the devil, the Antichrist, Lucifer, and Satan - which are four different characters. It's got the end of the world. You've got zombies, giants, demon possession, a lot of murder.
Marilyn Manson
#63. Slavery is an element of the human heart ... to our ruin.
Klaus Kinski
#64. London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.
John Legend
#65. Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element.
David Blunkett
#66. I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity.
Jimmy Heath
#67. Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Charles Baudelaire
#68. His biases played a large role here, but for Komatsu bias was an important element of truth.
Haruki Murakami
#69. I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.
Jamie Cullum
#70. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#71. There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
#72. Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.
Auguste Comte
#73. If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.
Deanna Raybourn
#74. Still, in a fight like that, you never know. There's a superhuman element involved. All warriors have to face it; winning or losing is partly a matter of luck.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#75. Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
Maimonides
#76. The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
Bruce Henderson
#77. I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.
Greta Scacchi
#78. This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.
Douglas Sirk
#79. Elections are about choices. They're about distinguishing one from the other. There is a political element to that, and of course it has to do with policy, as well.
David Gregory
#80. Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
Jean-Luc Godard
#81. We don't have a choice about Facebook any more. The choice element is less obvious than it seems. Maybe the 1bn poor people and a few hundred thousand rich people can afford not to be on it.. the rest of us don't have any choice.
Andrew Keen
#82. Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.
William Safire
#83. Schleiermacher, however, starts by attempting to find what he takes to be a basic element of the human condition as such, namely, that we did not invent ourselves but find ourselves born into a life and a world that precedes us in manifold ways.
George Pattison
#84. OM NAMAH SHIVAYA
prayer of Five Element which i(universe) Exist.
Sushil Singh
#85. Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.
Seth Troxler
#86. In the 1970's and in early 1980's, a startling discovery was made that almost every problem contains an element of solutions.
Insoo Kim Berg
#87. The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.
Frantisek Kupka
#88. People are the quintessential element in all technology ... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.
Garrett Hardin
#89. The most important element of democracy, I believe, is the protection of minorities.
Shahin Najafi
#90. Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the water in the first place is the element of risk.
Harold Payson
#91. As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
C.S. Lewis
#92. Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.
Gretchen Rubin
#93. Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others.
James E. Faust
#94. Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?"
She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind."
Oh. Great.
Richelle Mead
#95. Caravaggio was constantly diverted by the human element during burglaries. Breaking into a house during Christmas, he would become annoyed if the Advent calendar had not been opened up to the date to which it should have been.
Michael Ondaatje
#96. An essential element of being a writer is learning whom to listen to and whom to ignore where your work is concerned. Every
Ann Patchett
#97. There's always going to be an element of pressure when you walk on the stage.
Eddie George
#98. The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#99. A key element of Web blogs is the community element. Most blogs are not self-contained; they are highly dependent on linking to each other.
Evan Williams
#100. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
