Element Quotes

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. View quote
Franz Kafka
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. View quote
Willa Cather
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. View quote
Edith Wharton
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding. View quote
Fanny Kemble
The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. View quote
George C. Marshall
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction. View quote
Gabriel Marcel
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. View quote
J. Edgar Hoover
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. View quote
Willa Cather
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. View quote
Edith Sitwell
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. (Adlai Stevenson II)
Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic. View quote
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. View quote
Nam June Paik
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive. View quote
Jean Piaget
Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water. View quote
Fernand Léger
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. View quote
Edward Hopper
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. View quote
William Bernbach
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. View quote
Northrop Frye
nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before. View quote
Vitruvius
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. (Jean-Luc Godard)
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. View quote
Paul Tillich
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real” in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
The most violent element in society is ignorance. View quote
Emma Goldman
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. View quote
Franz Kafka