“In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.” PeopleThinkingHumansDoeArtLeftAttentionOne ThingElementsAccidentsSufficientHuman Will Author:Charles Baudelaire
“It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the disappointments, and conflicts, and afflictions of life may, if rightly used, become the means of improvement, and create in us the sinews of strength.... the dross is left in the crucible, the baser metals are transmuted, and the character is enriched with gold.” IfsKindMayMeanCharacterUsedLeftWiseSorrowConflictElementsGoldDisappointmentImprovementMetalsProvidenceArrangementsAfflictionCrucibleDross Author:William Morley Punshon
“The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.” MatterLeftGoneElementsGood ThingsCoreSymbolic Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen
“There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.” StatesLeftDoubtFoolElementsHollywoodOrganizationPoliceNo DoubtBroadwayPolice State Book:Elia Kazan: Interviews Source: Elia Kazan: Interviews
“In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.” TwoLeftWaterSecretBehindsShapesElementsStonesCrossesPrimariesDesertAbundanceExposedCanvasLeft BehindRarityVegetationFerocity Author:Craig Childs
“The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.” IfsShouldTryingPersonsWinningLeftChanceSinRiskElementsTragedyFinishedCautionAvoided Book:The power of money dynamics Source: The power of money dynamics
“I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right to privacy. I mean something more than the right to shave in private. I mean the right to join what I want to join, to do what I want to do, or not to do what I might do without giving anyone a reason, either in advance or afterwards. That does not mean that I am seeking for irresponsibility socially.” ThinkingWantGivingMeanDoeImportantReasonMightLeftRightsSocietyElementsSeekingPrivacyContributingLeft OutIrresponsibilityDynamismRight To Privacy Author:Chester Barnard
“All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.” ShouldLeftRoomsDesignObjectsElementsAcquireInterior DesignInstallation Author:Charlotte Moss
“The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].” WorldNeedsImportantFactsAbleWantedSchoolFacesLeftVoiceBehindsAttentionCareersNeededProveElementsSmartLifelongPostureProve ItFooling AroundCenter Of Attention Author:George Carlin
“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.” PeopleKnowsEndsMatterLeftWaterPracticeAirSkyElementsOceanBirdEnlightenmentFishesRangeRealmsSwimWater Is Life Author:Dogen
“I don't think that what I'm doing [political cartooning] is necessarily left versus right. What I'm addressing is top versus bottom. If I'm not spending a lot of time making fun of the more extreme elements of the Green Party, it's because what I do is to critique power.” IfsThinkingPoliticalLeftFunPartyElementsGreenBottomExtremesSpendingVersusCritiqueGreen Party Author:Tom Tomorrow
“This needs to work on that level, but it has the additional strain of it's going to be profoundly scrutinized by political junkies from the right and the left who will pick apart every little thing. We are inherently dramatizing Hillary Rodham, or Hillary Clinton, who's a very famous figure. There's a lot of biographies about her, but there's also elements that are private moments, that are dramatized with an arc, and we have to take creative license. Everything is sort of a cost-benefit.” NeedsLittlesMomentsPoliticalLeftLevelsCreativeFiguresCostElementsBenefitsPicksClintonLittle ThingsBiographiesStrainLicenseArcsJunkieVery Famous Author:James Ponsoldt
“That subject matter has never left me...The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search for serenity and a need to not be distracted by physical elements that are around you.” WorldNeedsMatterLeftSubjectsMaterialsElementsTendenciesSerenityDistractedSubject MatterMaterial World Author:Martin Scorsese
“I want to tell everybody that you won't hear me trying to pop bottles in the club and all that kind of stuff. It's just not me and I think as long as you stay within your element and your age bracket, sure you're going a couple of young folks and teens, but that's not who I'm focused on. I'm really not. I love whoever supports, but I'm just not going to try and go back there because times have changed. If you don't move with the times, you'll get left off. I'm trying to change with the times.” IfsThinkingWantTryingKindLongAgeMovingYoungLeftStuffSupportChangedCoupleElementsFolksClubsPopsFocusedBottlesTeensTrying To ChangeTimes Have ChangedBrackets Author:Ginuwine
“Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most important element of any poem is the part that is left unsaid. So the poetry frames the experience that lies beyond naming.” KindImportantLyingCertainLeftTeachElementsImportanceIronyProseUnsaid Author:Sam Hamill
“Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm. One source of anger, curiously enough, was that - was the tension between MMI and OAAU, that the MMI, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated, these were women and men who had left the Nation of Islam out of loyalty to Malcolm, but then Malcolm continued to evolve rapidly.” MenEnoughLeftNationsSourceElementsMen And WomenAngryIslamLoyaltyEvolveTensionMosquesEntourageNation Of Islam Author:Manning Marable
“The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in Memoirs of a Woman Doctor]. All this. They left only some very, very minute parts. And also the political, the political element in it. So in a way, they cut pieces that to my mind were very important.” MenWayMindImportantPoliticalLeftPiecesCuttingMinutesElementsDoctorsRelationMemoirPersonal Life Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“The left's propulsion is hate, and they have to have an outlet for the hate. They hate so much. They hate many elements of America. They hate people that don't think the way they do. It's not just that they disagree, they hate, and this energy requires action. People on the right, they don't hate anybody. We want everybody to get along, when you get right down to it. We're Rodney King types, actually.” PeopleThinkingWayWantActionAmericaHateEnergyLeftTypeKingsElementsDisagreeOutletsDon't HateHate PeoplePropulsion Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.” ThinkingHardLeftTalentElementsSmartCan't ChangeLeft Handed Author:Stephen King
“The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.” WayWellsCountryFeelingsMightLawHumanityLeftSidesNovelElementsDrivingSymbolsPleasantProtestSiteTrafficHighwaysMeltingDisregardEliminationDisregardedDriving On Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.” ThinkingBookFeelingsHomeFoundLeftWishHalfElementsStuckPurses Author:Charlaine Harris
“There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. Well, this one left them all behind.” ShouldWellsHas BeensLeftDifficultBehindsFiveCoupleCivilizationKissingElementsDiscoveryDeserveWeightMarkAgreeWesternAffectionSatisfiedPurityFormulasIntensityPreciseControversyThumbsDifficult ThingsRatingHookedDurationWestern Civilization Book:The Princess Bride Source: The Princess Bride
“I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left” you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can’t be elements of the left opposed to workers’ movement, at least under that definition.” PeopleIfsMeanUseLeftTermJusticeHonestMovementElementsWorkersDefinitionsCommittedBeing HonestMean PeoplePeace And Justice Author:Noam Chomsky