Elements Quotes

Sometimes words ruin everything.

~ Jesikah Sundin

I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena occur. We live for example on the surface of a planet. It is at a surface where the catalysis of chemical reactions occur. It is essentially at a surface of a plant that sunlight is converted to a sugar. In electronics, most if not all active circuit elements involve non-equilibrium phenomena occurring at surfaces. Much of biology is concerned with reactions at a surface.

~ Walter Houser Brattain

The water and the wind will wear the wood down, until only water and wind remain.

~ Lisa Mantchev

In all that I saw, I was satisfied, for I could dance in the drops of water, laugh with the laps of joyous tears, and sing to the songs of streaming senses.

~ Kayla Severson

The fish, whose tail was nipped, separated itself from the group and began to appear sickly, most likely from stress, Coal reasoned. He refused to be this fish, or the belly up fish, or the blue fish gasping for air. Rather, he resolved to be the other fish, the one who found purpose and meaning despite the unnatural environment, despite depending upon keepers for survival.

~ Jesikah Sundin

Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miserly, how wretched! Stingily given, aridly invented, heavily made!Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miserly, how wretched! Stingily given, aridly invented, heavily made!

~ Guy De Maupassant

Crossing the Fens by boat there comes the realisation that water not earth or sky is the natural element in this landscape.

~ Stephanie Green

In the last four days I have got the (results) given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron , Nickel, Cobalt and Copper ... The chief result is that ... the result for any metal (is) quite easy to guess from the results for the others. This shews that the insides of all the atoms are very much alike, and from these results it will be possible to find out something of what the insides are made up of.

~ Henry Moseley

Change is one of the most vibrant elements we can use to create a different tomorrow.

~ Steven Redhead

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

~ Jean Giraudoux

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

~ Gottfried Leibniz

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

~ Guillaume Apollinaire

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

~ Bertolt Brecht

I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.

~ Dominic Monaghan

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

~ Alfred Jarry

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

~ Francis Marion Crawford

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

~ Karlheinz Stockhausen

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.

~ Thorsten Heins