Best elements & matter Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: A course of six lectures on the various forces of Matter, and their relations to each other ... Edited by W. Crookes. With numerous illustrations

“New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.”

“This is a marvel of the universe: To fling a thought across a stretch of sky-- Some weighty message, or a yearning cry, It matters not; the elements rehearse Man's urgent utterance, and his words traverse The spacious heav'ns like homing birds that fly Unswervingly, until, upreached on high, A quickened hand plucks off the message terse.”

Men Matter Hands Universe Sky Cry Elements Messages Bird Radio Yearning Electricity Urgent Utterance Fling Pluck Traverse

Author:Josephine Preston Peabody

“Thai food ain't about simplicity. It's about the juggling of disparate elements to create a harmonious finish. Like a complex musical chord it's got to have a smooth surface but it doesn't matter what's happening underneath. Simplicity isn't the dictum here, at all. Some westerners think it's a jumble of flavours, but to a Thai that's important, it's the complexity they delight in.”

Thinking Important Matter Elements Happenings Complexes Musical Simplicity Delight Surface Complexity Smooth Chords Harmonious Juggling Flavour Westerners Thai Thai Food

Author:David

“Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit.”

Matter Spirit Elements Approach Intellectual Yeah

Author:Amos Lee

“No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.”

“Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject.”

Matter Stars Subjects Building Source Elements Core Block Chemistry Chemicals Building Blocks

Author:Peter Atkins

“I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you're stuck in the middle of nowhere.”

Thinking Matter Fire Middle Elements Clothes Tools Critical Stuck Cooks Dry Predator Morale Middle Of Nowhere Stuck In The Middle

Author:Bear Grylls

“All films created by Walt Disney at the time of his major outpouring of work were carefully crafted to fit scenes, characters, moods and situations. If these elements changed in any way, songs - no matter how good they were - were discarded. Others were written for the new scenes. Many times, character songs were dropped because characters were dropped...sequences were dropped etc.”

Ifs Way Matter Character Film Song Situation Written Changed Fit Scene Elements Majors Mood Etc Sequence Discarded Walt

Author:Richard Sherman

“When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to talk about were the ideas in the movie, the theme of it, and contextual elements that weren't necessarily central to the story. But the only thing people really wanted was a plot description and how many stars I'd give it. It didn't matter how much effort you put into writing a piece, they looked at it solely as a consumer's guide toward going or not going to films.”

People Giving Writing Kind Ideas Matter Reason Stories Wanted Film Found Stars Effort Pieces Elements Critics Guides Consumers Theme Description Plot Film Critics

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“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

“One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.”

Matter Taken Elements Advantage Paid Passing Passings Realization Maturity Subtle Get Away Procrastination Convenience Insincerity

Book:Love and Courage

Source: Love and Courage

“The vital elements are often momentary, change-sent things ... a gleam of light on water, a trail of smoke from a passing train, a cat crossing the threshold. Sometimes they are a matter of luck, sometimes of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that you have seen. It is usually some incidental detail that heightens the effect of a picture, stressing a pattern, deepening the sense of atmosphere.”

Sometimes Matter Light Waiting Water Effects Elements Cat Stress Luck Train Patterns Details Passing Passings Smoke Atmosphere Trails Crossings Threshold Momentary Gleam

Author:Bill Brandt

“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.”

Want Matter Facts Bits Our Lives Creation Essentials Elements Mirth

Book:God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald

Source: God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald

“Well, I think tone is very important with this show [Masters of Sex] because there are certain elements or certain aspects to the show that may be reminiscent of other shows. But, it really is a very new kind of show, in terms of the subject matter and the way it's being dealt with, and the fact that it's about real people and real events.”

People Thinking Way Wells Kind May Important Real Matter Facts Shows Certain Sex Term Subjects Events Masters Elements Aspect Tone Subject Matter

Author:Michael Sheen

“In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular... whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant.”

“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.”

World Needs Matter Left Subjects Materials Elements Tendencies Serenity Distracted Subject Matter Material World

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity of criminals and artists. Pretextually, it was sort of a money bag thriller. But it was aggressively not what it seemed to be. It was kind of Duchamps.”

Firsts Kind Matter Film Artist Novel Crime Taste Elements Criminals Bags Similarity Thrillers

Author:William Monahan

“Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal ills that we should talk about more than we do. And it's funny, of course, so we have that release valve with absurdism. It offers us a safe way to explore difficult subject matter.”

Way Should Matter Courses Difficult Fiction Subjects Offers Safe Elements Core Absurd Release Examination Subject Matter Valve Difficult Subjects

Author:Laurie Foos

“Greece is not a country that can be humiliated. It is a matter of finding an intersection between the reasonable elements of both sides [EU and Greece] which has to be done.”

Country Matter Done Sides Elements Findings Reasonable Both Sides Greece Humiliated Intersections

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with evil, or at least the principle of evil, and the reason for this is that he thinks that the the One, the highest principle, can also be thought of as the Good, and that's kind of surprising like, because he has this negative theology which doesn't allow us to say anything about the One. But he believes that it can be seen as the principle of goodness as well as unity, and that if you think about it, goodness and unity sort of go along with each other.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Wells Kind Matter Reason Evil Views Principles Goodness Elements Highest Negative Stronger Unity Theology Surprising Say Anything Controversial

Author:Peter Adamson

“Approaching subject matter to photograph is like meeting a person and beginning a conversation. How does one know ahead of time where that will lead, what the subject matter will be, how intimate it will become, how long the potential relationship will last? Certainly, a sense of curiosity and a willingness to be patient to allow the subject matter to reveal itself are important elements in this process.”

Knows Persons Long Doe Important Matter Lasts Process Subjects Conversation Elements Meetings Patient Curiosity Photograph Intimate Willingness Be Patient Subject Matter Ahead Of Time

Author:Michael Kenna

“That's always been the process of our music, in a sense, keeping it simple, not being so heavy that you are beating people over the head, it's just weighted down and it's like, "oohhh I can't relate." People are able to relate because we talked about things that everyone has experienced, it doesn't matter your race or genre. Music was your mainstay. There was something in our element of music that connected.”

People I Can Matter Able Process Simple Race Elements Down And Heavy Connected Relate Genre

Author:Ali Shaheed Muhammad

“The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.”

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison

“Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.”

Matter Life Is Spirit Existence Evolution Elements Constituents Manifold

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.”

Matter Return Elements All Things Seeds Nothingness

Author:William Shakespeare

“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...”

“How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.”

Matter Opportunity Lost Water Wonder Personality Circumstances Elements Illusion Instant Denied Misunderstanding Highways Many Friends

Book:The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories

Source: The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories

“You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”

Ifs Way Kind Matter Enough Body Today Jesus Stars Forget Evolution Elements Died Your Body Nuclear Iron Carbon Oxygen Things That Matter Stardust Furnaces Nitrogen

Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

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