Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon B. Hinckley

If we will concentrate on the best, that element will grow until it sparkles.

Herman Melville

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

Henry David Thoreau

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

Christopher Hitchens

I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.

George C. Marshall

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.

George Orwell

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

Fernando Pessoa

Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.

Felix Klein

Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to those who have learned at least the elements of the differential and integral calculus, as well as analytical geometry.

Heather Donahue

I did a lot of stuff in elementary school, the musicals and stuff, and started training at the Lawrence Street Theater School in Philadelphia.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.

Christopher Paolini

And what I hoped, and what I still hope, is that within those familiar elements I'm able to provide a unique twist. If there's anything that's truly unique about the series, what I'm most proud of is Eragon's relationship with Saphira.

Laurent Fabius

Europe is viewed as being the steady and growing element of the whole system,

Esteban is an interesting player. He's a good rebounder and is physical around the basket, and those are elements our team needs. We feel he's a guy that can improve and we look forward to working with him.

Esteban is an interesting player, ... He's a good rebounder, and is physical around the basket, and those are elements our team needs. We feel he's a guy that can improve, and we look forward to working with him.

Mitchell Baker

Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are.

Robert Collier

First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus - then the elements needed for its growth.

Sophie Hannah

Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each.

Sarah Jones

Everybody who's ever influenced me, from a Richard Prior to a Whoopie Goldberg to, you know, any of the voices that have resonated with me as a performer since I was a kid, you know, you couldn't really say that their work didn't have some element of political commentary in it.

Paul Tagliabue

Every player who was part of the investigation who's still in the league is being tested up to 24 times a year, which is the most important element of putting an end to this, ... That's why we have not had repeat offenders. That's as important or more important than the discipline. It's testing people up to 24 times a year on a random basis.

Every school from the elementary to the two middle schools to the high school, we had representatives of every school.

Peter Lindbergh

I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.

Pankaj Mishra

As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.

To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.

Ehud Barak

We should have no illusions: There are elements that will try to torpedo the peace process, ... They won't succeed.

There have been clashes between elements of the SSDF and the SPLM.

I see that as a huge issue for all of us with high-functioning kids in elementary school.

Is it (illegal) because there are some elements of this that may reflect poorly on John Kerry?

I've been here K through 12, and we've all been playing together since elementary school. (Receiver) Mark Dillman moved here before freshman year, but other than him it's been us all the way.

David Ayer

I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.

Tanith Belbin

We felt we improved on our performance at nationals. This is an invaluable experience for us to sees how our elements will be (scored).

We had 200, 300 people sharing three sets of bathrooms -- elementary school bathrooms with no flushing toilets and no running water.

Israel Broussard

I was in elementary school in Mississippi, and when Katrina hit, my mom put me in home school. So ever since sixth grade, I've been home schooled, which was interesting.

Ishmael Beah

I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew up praying five times a day.