Elements Quotes - Page 15

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.

Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

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.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.

So the misplaced assumption is that we have this whole new institutional element where these [financial] institutions are looking after their own financial interests before the financial interests of the principals, princi-pals whose interests they are really bound to observe first.

Trust is not an important element; it is THE important element in any LONG TERM success with anyone or any company.

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.

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.

To me it's just going for the moment that counts. Sometimes, I'll have all the elements there, and I like to play and push something, and to me, in the end, you do achieve things that you're not aware of in the beginning, even though you're there trying to get them.

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.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

Throughout your life, your inner landscape presents its contents to you again and again. When you are aware of all its elements, you are in continual communication with your soul.

The most abundant element in the Universe is stupidity

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

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