All Quotes

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
‐‐ Charles Eastman

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.
‐‐ Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements that create glamour are not specific styles - bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture - but more general qualities: grace, mystery, transcendence. To the right audience, Halle Berry is more glamorous commanding the elements as Storm in the X-Men movies than she is walking the red carpet in a designer gown.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.
‐‐ Dmitri Mendeleev

The elephant can survive only if forests survive.
‐‐ Mark Shand

The elephant in the room has always been simulator sickness and disorientation. That's one of the biggest challenges.
‐‐ Brendan Iribe

The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
‐‐ Simon Schama

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
‐‐ Richard Leakey

The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

The Elian events were shocking to Cubans because we were the fair-haired boys of the Cold War. The problem is, the Cold War ended.
‐‐ Joe Garcia

The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened; welfare has been widened - unemployment insurance and disability insurance. These are all incentives not to work.
‐‐ Lawrence Kudlow

The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world.
‐‐ Spencer Bachus

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
‐‐ Stanislav Grof

The elimination of unnecessary collateral requirements on foreign insurers and reinsurers is not only beneficial for the individual companies, but for the industry as a whole.
‐‐ Mike McGavick

The elite denizens of Washington and Wall Street scorn and mock the good and decent people of this country for wanting their laws enforced and their communities protected.
‐‐ Jeff Sessions

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.
‐‐ David Frum

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.
‐‐ Geraldo Rivera

The elite private tutor is typically ivy-educated and falls into one of two categories - a twenty-something pursuing an artistic career on the side, or someone older who has made a career out of college-prep. They are presentable, well-spoken, and are treated by doormen as guests more than as employees.
‐‐ Eliot Schrefer

The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.
‐‐ Jeff Sessions

The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.
‐‐ Roger Rees

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
‐‐ Mick Jagger

The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.
‐‐ Andrew J. Bernstein

The emails and the tweets and the Facebook posts and the fan mail that we get from young people all over America that are on the football team or on the hockey team are so touching. They tell me, 'Hey, this is me. I still have to remain in the closet, but your role in '90210' makes me feel better the way being gay is being portrayed.'
‐‐ Trevor Donovan

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
‐‐ Ellen Key

The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation.
‐‐ Melville Fuller

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.
‐‐ Corrine Brown

The embargo doesn't affect the United States, not even minimally; all of Cuba's economy is smaller than that of Miami-Dade County, and the ones who suffer the most are Cubans. If you talk to them in the street, they're the ones most interested in the opening of a free market in their country.
‐‐ Jorge M. Perez

The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.
‐‐ Miranda Hart

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.
‐‐ Helene Deutsch

The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.'
‐‐ Timothy Noah

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
‐‐ Charles C. Mann

The emergence and spread of virulent strains of avian influenza has been attributed by experts to the intensely overcrowded, unsanitary, and stressful conditions that often characterize large-scale factory farming in industrialized agriculture.
‐‐ Michael Greger

The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.
‐‐ Erik Hersman

The emergence of Casual Fridays has created a fine line of fashion ion dos and don'ts.
‐‐ Michael Perlis

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.
‐‐ Aly Khan

The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States.
‐‐ Thomas Woods

The emergency care Americans receive can fall short of what they expect and deserve.
‐‐ Harvey V. Fineberg

The emergent movement is creating a mushiness to the thinking patterns in Christianity today. It's like we really can't stand for anything.
‐‐ Eric Ludy

The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.
‐‐ Johannes Stark

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.
‐‐ Jeffrey Tambor

The Emmy that I lost, and I can't remember his name, I lost to the man who did the Olympics. So, it was great to lose to him. It's the Olympics.
‐‐ Sheila E.

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.
‐‐ Charles Keating

The Emmys are flat-out fun.
‐‐ Melissa Rivers

The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place.
‐‐ Allison Williams

The Emmys seem like an entity unto themselves that have an agenda that sometimes corresponds to quality, sometimes doesn't.
‐‐ Chris Bauer

The emotion at the point of technical breakthrough is better than wine, women and song put together.
‐‐ Richard Hamming

The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.
‐‐ Bill Medley

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman

The emotional magnets beneath home and workplace are in the process of being reversed. Work has become a form of 'home' and home has become 'work.'
‐‐ Arlie Russell Hochschild