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Quotes About Element

Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all forms of love. These are care, responsability, respect and knowledge
~ Erich Fromm
The street, which I believed could offer my life its surprising detours, the street with its uneasiness and its glances, was my true element; there as nowhere else I caught the breath of the possible.
~ Andre Breton
I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually.
~ Tom Selleck
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
~ Christopher Dawson
For 'We Are the Streets,' we'd just gotten off Bad Boy. So we were just back in our element and were going up to Powerhouse every night just creating.
~ Jadakiss
But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.
~ Toby Jones
Gravity Falls' normally follows very particular rules: we start out in reality close to the world as we know it, usually one magical element presents itself, and then it's essentially vanished or hidden back to where it came from by the end of the 20 minutes.
~ Alex Hirsch
Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that I grew up listening to and that first drew me in. And then I always try to find somewhere for a bluesy guitar sound, because that's also what I love.
~ Hunter Hayes
What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
~ J. C. Ryle
I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.
~ Richard Griffiths
Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situation,however dire, even this one, that did not strike me as containing at least some element of the human comedy.
~ Robert Harris
Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.
~ Ludwig Buchner
With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.
~ Roger Penrose
Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.
~ Talcott Parsons
The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we propose to give the name of radium.
~ Marie Curie
the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…
~ Derek Walcott
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
~ Diane Ackerman
I saw the sea-gods come, moving with an irresistible momentum, not rising into the air as the riders rose, but deep in their own element, unhasting, unresting; for the power of the sea is in the weight of the waters and not in the wind-blown crests. These Great Ones rose with the tide, and like the tide, nothing might withstand them.
~ Dion Fortune
In her face was the tense expression of an organism surviving in an alien element.
~ Djuna Barnes
Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.
~ Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
~ Willa Cather
A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.
~ Harvey Cushing
Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
~ Harmon Killebrew
Hope is a decisive element in any attempt to bring about social change in the direction of greater aliveness, awareness, and reason.
~ Erich Fromm