Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time itself is an element.

Emma Goldman

Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.

Norah Vincent

As you will see, being Ned was often an uncomfortable and alienating experience, and far from finding myself in him, I usually felt kept from myself in some elemental way.

To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.

Herbie Hancock

Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz and have incorporated by sampling some elements that come from jazz.

As a smaller elementary school, if they can get out there and do it, we should do well.

Our end game is to take out the leadership elements especially. These arrests are a means to that end.

Richard Riley

Our elementary schools are getting better at teaching the basics,

Christopher Paolini

And what I hoped, and what I still hope, is that within those familiar elements I'm able to provide a unique twist. If there's anything that's truly unique about the series, what I'm most proud of is Eragon's relationship with Saphira.

Laurent Fabius

Europe is viewed as being the steady and growing element of the whole system,

Esteban is an interesting player. He's a good rebounder and is physical around the basket, and those are elements our team needs. We feel he's a guy that can improve and we look forward to working with him.

Esteban is an interesting player, ... He's a good rebounder, and is physical around the basket, and those are elements our team needs. We feel he's a guy that can improve, and we look forward to working with him.

Mitchell Baker

Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are.

Robert Collier

First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus - then the elements needed for its growth.

Chris Johnson

There's still an element of the self-fulfilling prophecy here, in that you're seeing people jump into a rally just because it's the end of the year and we're supposed to have a rally. I wouldn't be surprised if we're lollygagging around here until the end of the year.

At the moment there is no element in this village indicating human-to-human transmission. It's typically similar to what we have seen so far (in Asia).

The unruly elements of this family's story need not be left for the public to analyze,

This eliminates J&J's negotiating position that immediacy is an important element of their deal. They've eliminated the time-value-of-money risk.

Stephen Harper

You would think there would be some element of shame. There is none whatsoever.

Scott Evans

There was no other single element of the 216th that worked as hard or worked at more places than the equipment platoon from right here in Felicity, Ohio, ... They will have a place of honor in the history of the 216th and the Ohio National Guard forever, as will the maintenance platoon, which is also located here at Felicity.

Robert Ford

There weren't any dummies in there. There weren't elements to test her, like someone known not to be near the party or involved.

There were a lot of elements to this. It wasn't just recent results. I've been contemplating looking at this situation real seriously for the last three, four months.

It's been such a good performance but there looks like an element of profit taking with a lack of new momentum. We are looking for something else to push us forward.

Jonathan Davis

It's exciting with the new elements there. We knew we wanted to do something different and over the top and not a typical Korn show, so we're doing new things.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If we will concentrate on the best, that element will grow until it sparkles.

Herman Melville

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

Henry David Thoreau

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

Cat Stevens

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.

Christopher Hitchens

I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.

George C. Marshall

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.

George Orwell

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

Fernando Pessoa

Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.