Elements Quotes

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. (Thomas Carlyle)
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. View quote
Edward Hopper
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. View quote
George Will
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. View quote
Joseph Addison
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. View quote
Edith Wharton
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. View quote
Harlan Ellison
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. View quote
Thomas Browne
The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed. View quote
Edward Bernays
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them. View quote
Lalu Prasad Yadav
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society's values, can force it to change. (Samuel R. Delany)
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements. View quote
Harry Houdini
Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value. View quote
Louis V. Gerstner
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. View quote
Jack Kerouac
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. View quote
Luis Barragán
The roots of defeat which were put down by some of the elements of our party in the two or three years after 1980 made victory difficult to achieve. View quote
Neil Kinnock
I have presented the periodic table as a kind of travel guide to an imaginary country, of which the elements are the various regions. This kingdom has a geography: the elements lie in particular juxtaposition to one another, and they are used to produce goods, much as a prairie produces wheat and a lake produces fish. It also has a history. Indeed, it has three kinds of history: the elements were discovered much as the lands of the world were discovered; the kingdom was mapped, just as the world was mapped, and the relative positions of the elements came to take on a great significance; and the elements have their own cosmic history, which can be traced back to the stars. View quote
Peter Atkins
While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry. View quote
Antoine Lavoisier
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. (Federico García Lorca)
While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures according to natural temperament which make up the natures of all the different animals of the world, each after its kind. View quote
Vitruvius
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness. View quote
Erich Fromm
This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an irreconcilably anti-critical and anti-dialectical language. In it, operational and behavioral rationality absorbs the transcendent, negative, oppositional elements of Reason. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man. View quote
William Shakespeare