Elements Quotes - Page 37

• My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Exercise, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.32

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• We may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the element of popular election and control in their composition; and believing as I do, that the mass of the citizens is the safest depository of their own rights and especially that the evils flowing from the duperies of the people are less injurious than those from the egoism of their agents, I am a friend to that composition of government which has in it the most of this ingredient.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Rights, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.608, Cambridge University Press

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• The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements of a sometimes successful civil religion based around a sentimental, indeed sometimes teary-eyed, attachment to the constitution and a belief in the quasi-divine wisdom of the founding fathers.

  Simon Critchley

  Father, Successful, Attachment

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• Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Essentials, Want, Matter

  Pope Benedict XVI, Peter Seewald (2002). “God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald”, p.14, Ignatius Press

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• A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.

  Arnold Adoff

  Together, Form, Fine

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• Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.

  John Cheever

  Lying, Hands, Feelings

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• In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Expression, Silence

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

  Theodor Adorno

  Lying, Realization, Kitsch

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.363, Univ of California Press

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• The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Important, Stories, Literature

  Henry Seidel Canby (1922). “Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism”

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• Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Recovery, Men, World

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• In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of human nature. Rest or recreation is the element in which the personality seeks to renew its strength from these stimuli that exhaust the reserve of human resources. It's an element introduced into life by the person himself.

  Nikolay Chernyshevsky

  Personality, Human Nature, Pleasure

  Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky, Michael R. Katz (1989). “What Is to Be Done?”, p.315, Cornell University Press

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• We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which were refreshing and open. But at this point, with the distrust that's there and the disillusionment with leadership that is so acute, we need some kind of a focus on taking the irony out and taking the anti-hero element away.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hero, Focus, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Linking financial element to energy consumption I think has a huge role if you think about a display instrument that could teach us about what we are using, how much it costs us, how much it is saving, and therefore change our decisions.

  Dan Ariely

  Thinking, Decision, Energy

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• There's an element of realism to it. I immersed myself more in the subject as a young adult. Then I started to get involved with a lot of people that were involved in it, and they would just bring me along basically. And I learned and decided that my Christian charity, what I wanted to do to serve God's will, was to help people that were ensnared by the demonic.

  Ralph Sarchie

  Christian, People, Adults

  Source: collider.com

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• I love helicopters. In fact, my wife and my friends, the myth of the chopper in the sky is that Len's going to stop and look at it. I love, probably, destroying them, yes. You know, It's the big elements, the big toys, the trucks the helicopters, and things like that. You have a few tools to play with.

  Len Wiseman

  Sky, Play, Wife

  Source: collider.com

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• I think there's an element in Milady where she sees her own innocence in D'Artagnan. In the very beginning, she's using him in a pretty cynical way. When she gets to know him, she sees qualities in him that she recognizes and it's almost like trying to remake the past, but of course, it doesn't work.

  Adrian Hodges

  Past, Thinking, Cynical

  Source: collider.com

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• My roots are very closely tied to the DNA of the brand. Growing up in Serbia where women are unapologetically very feminine, I came to London and realised that I wanted to keep this feminine element but give it a twist and challenge ideas of classical beauty.

  Roksanda Ilincic

  Growing Up, Dna, Ideas

  "Roksanda Ilincic Sets Up Shop in London". Interview with Davina Catt, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 11, 2014.

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• I do think there is a completely different notion to glamour today. I think modern glamour is more effortless, easy, and real. Moreover, I think it's about constantly challenging classical ideas by bringing in unexpected and different elements; for example a long, elegant evening skirt paired with a simple t-shirt on the red carpet. I think this approach is the future.

  Roksanda Ilincic

  Real, Simple, Thinking

  "Roksanda Ilincic Sets Up Shop in London". Interview with Davina Catt, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 11, 2014.

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• It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it makes him able to write from the female point of view as well as the male. In some cases, of course, you will find some homosexual writers who can only write from a f - - -'s point of view. But I don't regard myself as a f - - -! Some people may. Also audiences wanted escapism. They don't like too much protest or criticism of their way of life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Sex, Writing, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's the thing about acting - it does have the feeling of downhill skiing. When it's really all going right, you know your lines, you know what's important to your character, you pick the strongest reactions possible to elements in the story. But then you let it all go and you're in the moment and stuff happens. It surprises you and it's super strong; it's like you're living life in a slightly heightened way in the time between "action" and "cut."

  Mira Sorvino

  Strong, Live Life, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Drama, London, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Order, Play

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.197, Univ of California Press

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• There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Night, Keys, Understanding

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• Five centuries from now - barring unimaginable catastrophe - the moon will be developed real estate. There's economic incentive to exploit the moon - the helium-3 will be useful in powering fusion reactors, and the rare earth elements could supplant the limited terrestrial supply of these materials.

  Seth Shostak

  Real, Moon, Fusion

  "Armstrong Wasn’t Columbus" by Seth Shostak, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.

  Richard N. Haass

  Giving Up, Government, Addresses

  "State sovereignty must be altered in globalized era" by Richard Haass, www.taipeitimes.com. February 21, 2006.

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