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Quotes About Element

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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 world.
~ Madame de Stael
The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.
~ J. G. Holland
Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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
Music will always be a major part of my life, its my outlet, I'm in my element and I'm free.
~ Mandisa
Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
~ Victoria Wood
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.
~ Matthew Shipp
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
~ Franz Kafka
You are one of the forces of nature.
~ Jules Michelet
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
~ Herbert Spencer
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]
~ Ludovico Ariosto
What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The dependency of the human element on Planet Earth is a profoundly personal relationship with Nature's Mom.
~ Wes Adamson
In the natural equation (Natural Society) freedom, is but the only element of equality commonly shared by all species".
~ Err:509
~ "Harmony, and not peace, is the key element that can bring all nations of the world together. In science we cannot prove peace, but we can prove what harmony is!
~ Joey Lawsin
A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen
Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force... it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean.
~ Prentice Mulford
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
~ Willa Sibert Cather
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
~ William Bernbach
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
~ William James
The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.
~ Derek Walcott