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“At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.”

Ends Belief Break Reader Elements The End Of The Day Attachment Realism Magical Realism Make Or Break

Author:Tea Obreht

“And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.”

Humans Littles Ends Helping Faces Realizing Darkness Elements Vulnerable This Life Cynicism Introducing Finite Silliness

Author:Alan Thicke

“Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses.”

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them here in America, and the farther we get into this war the farther we get away from democracy and freedom. Where is it leading us to, and when will it end? The war might stop this winter, but that is improbable. It may go on for fifty years or more. That also is improbable. The elements are too conflicting and confused to form any accurate judgment of its length. There may be a series of wars, one after another, going on indefinitely.”

World Years May War Ends Might America Form Democracy Conditions Havens Goes On Elements Judgment Series Winter Confused Fifty Get Away Length Accurate Improbable

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.”

Ends Happens Becoming Elements Standards Consumers Apprehension Standards Of Living

Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.”

Ifs Want Real Ends Crazy Streets Building Elements Difficulty Come Up Colour Shops Location Avenues Outlines Being Crazy

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel is to obtain this recognition, she must, in a settlement, put an end to the territorial occupation which she has maintained since the war of 1967; the nine members of the European Community have declared that this is an essential element in a settlement. On behalf of the British Government I underline that need today.”

“Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all nationalism contains elements of both, but Scotland is very far on the civic end of the spectrum. That is partly because nobody has ever been stupid enough to say that Scotland is an ethnicity in a genetic sense. A kingdom of Scotland existed long before anybody talked of a Scottish people. So that is one thing we have been spared.”

People Ifs Way Wells Long Has Beens Ends Enough Form One Thing Stupid Elements Kingdoms Nationalism Scotland Spectrum Civics Scottish Ethnicity

Author:Neal Ascherson

“We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.”

Source: The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know

“The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a career contains the elements of self-destruction. Democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equality in rights and privileges, and universal education, foreshadow the next higher plane of society to which experience, intelligence and knowledge are steadily tending.”

Source: The Indian Journals, 1859-62

“Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.”

Knows Humans Ends Play Know How Elements Election Details Entertaining Thrillers

Author:Kevin Spacey

“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.”

Wells Ends Might Silence Greatness Source Elements Ocean Transcendental

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.”

Ends Eye Lying Elements Jokes Victim Foolish Practicals Hostile Laughable Practical Joke

Book:O

Source: O

“A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.”

Ends Character Certain Interesting Degrees Elements Glamour Sexiness

Author:Erin Cummings

“Compromise is the key element. The more constraints you have, the more compromise you have to have. But, I personally believe that, when that happens, you have to get more creative, and you end up with something that is even better.”

Believe Ends Happens Creative Keys Elements Compromise Constraints

Author:Thomas Ian Nicholas

“Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes our resistance and nonviolence truly meaningful. That element is reconciliation. Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community.”

Ends Community Struggle Creation Elements Ultimate Meaningful Resistance Beloved Nonviolence Reconciliation Beloved Community

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they exploded, scattered their enriched contents across the galaxy, sprinkled into gas clouds that then collapsed and formed stars and planets and life.”

Ends Science Stars Planets Elements Mass Clouds Gas Galaxy Unstable Forged Stars And Planets

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!”

Firsts Soul Ends Light Pain Turns Black Voice Minutes Worst Elements Brave Rage My Soul Thee Breasts Rave

Book:The Works of Robert Browning

Source: The Works of Robert Browning

“The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.”

Made Ends Use Turns Prayer Goodness Elements All Things

Author:Julian of Norwich

“Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a god thanks to its own creative ability. And, thanks to its victory over space and time, it would now be splendidly united for all time, if it were not confused again and again by that fatal delusion which causes humankind to keep on destroying this grandiose unity and to destroy itself with the same resources which gave it power over the elements.”

“Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.”

People Important Ends Values Culture Games Business Vision Elements Capacity Aspect Organization Strategy Entrepreneur Marketing Corporations My Time Just One Collectives Makeup Ceo Ibm

Author:Lou Gerstner

“Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.”

Ends Process Opinion Elements Public Opinion Irresistible Satyagraha

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“As a comedian, you have to start the show strong and you have to end the show strong. Those are the two key elements. You can't be like pancakes. You're all happy at first, but then by the end, you're sick of 'em.”

Firsts Two Ends Shows Humor Funny Strong Keys Elements Sick Comedian Ems Pancakes

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“A lot of people don't think about it, but the Bible has every horror element that you can imagine. It's got the devil, the Antichrist, Lucifer, and Satan - which are four different characters. It's got the end of the world. You've got zombies, giants, demon possession, a lot of murder.”

People Thinking World Different Ends Character Four Imagine Horror Elements Devil Murder Possession Satan Giants Demon Zombie End Of The World Lucifer Different Characters Antichrist

Author:Marilyn Manson

“In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.”

Should Ends Focus Teacher Achieve Judging Keys Months Needed Conflict Elements Training Doctors Police Soldier International Iraq Officers Involvement Police Officer Robust

Author:John Olver

“I was in Afghanistan and then obviously in Iraq. And I realized that you can't control life. You can do a lot to prepare. You can train, and at the end of the day there's an element that's always going to be beyond your control.”

Ends Can Do Elements Train Iraq I Realized The End Of The Day Afghanistan And At The End Of The Day

Author:Nathaniel Fick

“There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior to mere administrative considerations. The military man, having to do the fighting, considers that the chief necessity; the administrator equally naturally tends to think the smooth running of the machine the most admirable quality.”

Source: Mahan on Naval Warfare: Selections from the Writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan

“A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird flies in the sky, and no matter how far it flies there is no end to the air. However the fish and the bird have never left their elements. Thus each of them totally covers its full range, and each of them totally experiences its realm... Know that water is life and air is life. The bird is life and the fish is life. Life must be the bird and life must be the fish... practice, enlightenment and people are like this.”

People Knows Ends Matter Left Water Practice Air Sky Elements Ocean Bird Enlightenment Fishes Range Realms Swim Water Is Life

Author:Dogen

“Blade Runner's just a noir at the end of the day. Rosemary's Baby is about the fear of having a child and how that gets in the way of a romantic relationship. Or whatever it is, and you add that extra element that blows your mind apart.”

Way Mind Children Ends Baby Elements Add Blow Extras The End Of The Day Runners Blades Noir Romantic Relationship Rosemary Blade Runner

Author:James Ponsoldt

“When I made 'Real Steel,' the director actually had the robots in the monitor, so he knew where everything was. So technically, there's been advancements. But at the end of the day, movies are about story and characters, so all the other stuff is great, but unless you have those two elements, then you've got nothing.”

Made Two Real Ends Character Stories Stuff Directors Elements The End Of The Day Steel Robots Advancement Real Steel

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.”

Ifs Should Persons Ends Facts Stories Three Fiction Situation Changed Elements Things Have Changed

Book:Conversations with Malcolm Cowley

Source: Conversations with Malcolm Cowley

“I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.”

“We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.”

Ends Nations Common Policy Elements Tradition Prejudice Catholic Spots Remembered Aspiration Protestants Scotch Vibrate

Author:Wilfrid Laurier

“Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“I have very rarely written autobiographical stuff. "Greasy Lake" and some other works have some autobiographical elements, as does "Birnam Wood," the one I chose to end [this collection] with. I lived in that house and some of my feelings are expressed in it, but it's not autobiography. It was not me and that didn't happen exactly that way.”

Way Doe Ends Feelings Happens House Stuff Written Elements Woods Collections Lakes Autobiography

Author:T.C. Boyle

“And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.”

Feels Ends Film Process Acting Design Elements Music Is Filmmaking Fists Punching Cinematography Best Film

Author:Ethan Hawke

“I think love and obsession are almost one and the same thing at some times. Because the person you end up falling in love with, there is an element of obsession in the early days - it's all you can think about.”

Thinking Persons Ends Fall Elements Falling In Love Obsession

Author:Ladyhawke

“Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to even comprehend the individual things. Just take homelessness. If you are homeless, what does it mean not to have a post box where people can contact you; what does it mean not knowing where you're going to sleep at the end of the day; what does it mean not having a place where you can store what little you might possess. So dealing with homelessness in itself is a huge thing for most people who are commentators [on] or benefactors to poverty.”

“The third element of success is your state: You must replace a default state of pessimism or anger with one of determination, of will, of generosity, of curiosity, of gratitude. The more we can put ourselves in such beautiful states rather than suffering states, the more they become habits of being and we end up making better decisions.”

Ends States Beautiful Suffering Decision Habit Gratitude Elements Determination Thirds Curiosity Generosity Pessimism Default

Author:Tony Robbins

“If the agent aims to make the attempt if and only if it would be apt, then a distinctive element of risk assessment becomes relevant: How probably would the agent succeed in attempting that fuller end?”

Ifs Ends Would Be Risk Succeed Elements Aim Agents Relevant Attempting Assessment Distinctive Ifs And

Author:Ernest Sosa

“I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.”

Want Writing Years Mean Ends Sometimes Interesting Elements Another Year

Author:Michael Helm

“The British inclined more towards the feudal mentality, the feudal structures rather than the more radical progressive elements who would re-shape society and institute pretty egalitarian systems of governance with opportunity for even disadvantaged people and so I found that decolonisation was not just the end of political struggle in Nigeria.”

People Ends Political Found Opportunity Struggle Shapes Elements Structure British Radical Progressive Mentality Governance Institute Nigeria Disadvantaged Political Struggle

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.”

Ends Games Simple Pieces Higher Elements Chess Stakes Lifeboats Life Of Pi Book

Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

“For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an "electocracy" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life without having to endure corruption, violence, or arbitrary power.”

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

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