Elements Quotes - Page 26

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

  Til Schweiger

  Emotional, Germany, Needs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Joy is a spiritual element that gives vicissitudes unity and significance.

  Helen Keller

  Spiritual, Giving, Joy

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

  Agnes Repplier

  Humor, Essence, Mind

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

  Rebecca West

  Feelings, Done, Poverty

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• Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

  Jeremy Collier

  Fire, Water, Conscience

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Artist, Two, Symphony

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• Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

  Fay Weldon

  Fiction, Literature, Subversive

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• Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.

  Ruth Benedict

  Civilization, Society, Analysis

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.278, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

  Susan Sontag

  Pleasure, Position

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• The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.

  Mary McCarthy

  Fashion, Kissing, Clothes

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism - real life - the now.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Real, Believe

  "Photography at the Crossroads". Essay by Berenice Abbott, 1951.

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• If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.

  Louis Diat

  Food, Cooking, Important

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• The tyranny of distance is such an important element of policy and the allocation of resources.

  George Brandis

  Distance, Important, Resources

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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