Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
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.
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.
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.
You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.
Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.
There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and... putting off for as long as possible the idea that they'll actually have to settle down
The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
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