Famous Quotes & Sayings

William H. Gass

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.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

Sallust

Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?

Piers Anthony

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Marcello Mastroianni

Woman is also the element of conflict.

Thorstein Veblen

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.

Thomas Carlyle

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Serj Tankian

Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.

Samuel Alexander

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

T. Harv Eker

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

Sylvester Stallone

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.

Susan Sontag

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

Rudolf Arnheim

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Roger Penrose

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

Robert Higgs

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

Vito Fossella

Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.

Wassily Kandinsky

Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

William James

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.