“I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.” HumansTwoSidesDarkDealsStruggleElementsAspectVampireWho We AreFascinatedFascinationDark Side Author:Sheryl Lee
“The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.” ForceStruggleMilitaryDangerousElementsPropagandaFloodPettyCompulsionAnarchismBourgeoisSuppressionBourgeoisieAgitation Author:Vladimir Lenin
“I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam.” IfsWorldWayGivingMindWellsChildrenMadeSometimesSexWaterPoorStruggleHabitWalkingElementsIndependentMalesDareBelovedThrownAdamTrust MeWrecksInfancyBeloved Friends Author:Frances Wright
“Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.” PeopleKnowsCharacterHumanityStruggleElementsWeaknessFlawsFlawed Author:Liev Schreiber
“Our militant union with peoples which still have to carry on an armed struggle against the colonialists constitutes an important element of our line in international affairs.” StillsImportantLinesStruggleElementsUnionsAffairInternationalMilitantInternational AffairsArmed Struggle Author:Leonid Brezhnev
“Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” PeopleHumansMeanChildrenImportantSelfHelpingTodayStruggleRightsTomorrowElementsIncreaseOur ChildrenHuman RightsSelf RespectPassports Book:By any means necessary Source: By any means necessary
“The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.” MenHumansSelfHandsDeathPassionAsksSocialStruggleTearsVictoryHonorElementsEngagedDesperateSelf RespectConventionsRestraintNobilityFear Of DeathBrutesSocial LifeLife DeathDegrading Author:Gertrude Bell
“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.” EndsCommunityStruggleCreationElementsUltimateMeaningfulResistanceBelovedNonviolenceReconciliationBeloved Community Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.” IfsTwoLyingForceStruggleElementsSolutions Author:Benito Mussolini
“In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.” SelfMomentsChristAnswersForgetWorryStruggleProtectElementsStressAddictionStormFists Author:Ann Voskamp
“I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff.” ThinkingHumansChristianSongStuffStruggleElementsTypicalTheocracyRealness Author:Matt Smith
“We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.” WorldShouldHas BeensSchoolEvilMoralStruggleModernInvolvedElementsDiversityIntellectualUnityPracticalsDespiteSecureMutualIntroducingModern WorldEmbarrassmentSectsEarnestnessAntagonismBoonManifoldEntanglementMoral Life Author:Felix Adler
“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.” ThinkingMenHas BeensEndsRunningFightingQualityStruggleMilitaryElementsMachinesConstantMereSuperiorsChiefsConsiderationSmoothAdmirableReadinessAdministrativeAdministratorsMilitary ManConstant StruggleAdmirable Qualities Book:Mahan on Naval Warfare: Selections from the Writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan Source: Mahan on Naval Warfare: Selections from the Writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan
“For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured out all of its elements and how they were going to work together.” IdeasTogetherProcessInterestingStrugglePaintingElementsTestsWorking TogetherGoing To WorkExecuting Author:Laura Owens
“The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.” MenStoriesChallengesTalkingStruggleElementsRainResolutionNbaTransactionsNew BusinessBusiness Relationship Author:Peter Guber
“[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents...All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions.” FirstsPassionParentKindnessStruggleDutyEssentialsAuthorityElementsEncouragementPatientImpressionTriumphTemperParentalLoving KindnessParental Authority Author:Pope Pius XII
“If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWorldTryingHas BeensArtBlackDealsStruggleOur LivesIdentityElementsInvisibleWho We AreIndifferentJust SayingAll BlackBlack Art Author:Cheo Hodari Coker
“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.” PeopleEndsPoliticalFoundOpportunityStruggleShapesElementsStructureBritishRadicalProgressiveMentalityGovernanceInstituteNigeriaDisadvantagedPolitical Struggle Author:Wole Soyinka
“Fanon calls his ideology a new humanism, not only in contrast to the elite humanism of the West, but also on the axiom that the wretched of the earth, understood socially, think and thus must be a basis of a new politics. This, of course, is not achieved immediately, but it must become an explicit element of the struggle for liberation.” ThinkingEarthCoursesStruggleElementsUnderstoodBasesWestHumanismIdeologyLiberationElitesContrastWretchedAxiomsExplicit Author:Nigel Gibson
“I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.” RealityGamesStruggleTeamFootballElementsMythologyWarriorNarrativeGradesCombatFourthUniformsGroundedFourth Grade Author:Steve Sabol