Elements Quotes - Page 13

• One of man's basic concerns is a house - a place to find protection from the rain and elements. But a house can be much more than a building. It is the social context of his family life -\-\ the place where he loves and shares with this closest to him.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Rain, Men, House

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• Action alone doesnt work in Germany - you need an emotional element to the story.

  Til Schweiger

  Emotional, Germany, Needs

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• People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an element of it where they want to be discovered because they're in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  People, Want, Way

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• It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

  Gina Bellman

  Fun, Acting, Dresses

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• In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

  Janet Montgomery

  Hate, Character, Play

  "HitFix Interview: Janet Montgomery talks ‘Human Target,’ ‘Black Swan’ and more". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. November 16, 2010.

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• Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Pain, Party, Gay

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• I believe absence is a great element of charm.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Absence, Charm

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• A woman mixed of such fine elements
  That were all virtue and religion dead
  She'd make them newly, being what she was.

  George Eliot

  Women, Virtue, Fine

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.403

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• Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Humor, Genius, Admirable

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Oysters, Contentment, May

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• All great art contains an element of the irrational.

  Edith Sitwell

  Art, Irrational, Great Art

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

  Pliny the Elder

  Mother, Men, Enemy

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• Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

  Anthony Davis

  Meaningful, Important, Pieces

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• Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perfect, Taught, Christianity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

  Rose Macaulay

  Swimming, Actors, Strange

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.), John Hamilton Cowper Johnson (1963). “Last letters to a friend, 1952-1958”

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• In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Beauty, Beautiful, Lying

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• Two elements enter into successful and happy gatherings at table. The food, whether simple or elaborate, must be carefully prepared; willingly prepared; imaginatively prepared. And the guests - friends, family or strangers - must be conscious of their welcome.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Successful, Simple, Two

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• Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sacrifice, Religion, Firsts

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.240, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Happiness, Heart, Men

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

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Dresses, Manners, Loud

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• The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

  Victor Hugo

  Lying, Poetic, Source

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• A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.

  Lois Wyse

  Writing, Quiet Moments, Waiting

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• If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Religious, Men, Religion

  Letter to Thomas Chalmers, October 11, 1841.

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• Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ocean, Greatness, Silence

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.15

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• Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

  May Sarton

  Self, People, Solitude

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.135, Open Road Media

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