Famous Quotes & Sayings

By passing the permanent trade legislation and then by working to get them in the World Trade Organization, it seems to me we put ourselves on the side of the reform elements in China.

Moon Bloodgood

To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time itself is an element.

Andy Phillips

The main KLA elements are cooperating, but we don't know what fringe elements are out there,

Henry Reed

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

Hilaire Belloc

There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in the control of various other metals, notably lead, nickel, quicksilver. What is most disquieting of all, this tendency to monopoly is spreading like a disease.

Origen

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

Olivia Cooke

When I was filming Ouija, there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.

Mary Augusta Ward

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

Dusty Baker

The elements were with us tonight. We thought spring was here and winter showed up again. I guess that's Chicago.

Emma Goldman

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

John Dewey

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

John Calvin

If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.

Joan Robinson

There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

Lauren Jackson

When I'm on the court, I feel like I'm in my element.

John Malkovich

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

Elizabeth Gilbert

We live in this society where you must constantly be reinventing yourself. The big question is what are you doing next. The only thing they want is composed of these three elements: They want you to do it the exact same way because they want more of it; but they want it to be totally different; and they want it to be better. That's all you have to do. You just have to do something that's exactly the same, totally different, and better.

Liu Xiaobo

In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

Julie Mehretu

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

Kanye West

I live and breathe every element in life.

Paul Klee

Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly.

Maggie Smith

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

Haruki Murakami

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

Hans Selye

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

Graydon Carter

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

Lord Acton

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

I'm not saying that Preval himself is involved, but there are elements around him, and in this country, that resort to violence in situations like these. I want to think we can have a peaceful contest, but I fear the worst.

Karl Marx

Moments are the elements of profit

Karl Marx

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

Peter Guber

'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.

Mitchell Hurwitz

There are elements of that, where you'll see a scene again and you'll recognize it, but I wouldn't say it's got one conceit like that, at all. It definitely has those jokes, but it would be wrong to say this is a show where, every time you see it, you see a new angle.