Elements Quotes - Page 13

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

Our element is unending immaturity.

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 particles it builds a world.

Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.

Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical - that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So this reductive account can also be described as a form of panpsychism: all the elements of the physical world are also mental.

Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.

Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success.

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

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.

Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

This is the kernel of the problem, as we see it: the Jews comprise a distinctive element among the nations under which they dwell, and as such can neither assimilate nor be readily digested by any nation.

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

A schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of a return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements. Only birth can conquer death -- the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.

The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game.

Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.