Quotes by category:Elements

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

Talcott Parsons

elements action science

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

Talcott Parsons

elements special facts

Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on.

Swami Vivekananda

elements principles real

there are elements of truth in all great fiction by Teresa Medeiros

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

Teresa Medeiros

elements fiction

Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of which all others are manifestations. So religion ceases to progress when unity is reached, which is the case with Hinduism.

Swami Vivekananda

unity progress elements

Procurement policies of all of the major parastatals, it is a very important element of that processes that will continue.

elements important process

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

elements realization lying

It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put them into the story, but in a very mixed-up way.

elements stories way

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

elements pieces religion

What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

Thomas a Kempis

elements earth heaven

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conver... by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

elements dresses manners

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty... by Thomas Carlyle

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

mysterious elements mystery

The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both coop... by Thomas E. Donilon

The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.

Thomas E. Donilon

cooperation competition elements

The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.

iron elements thinking

One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.

isms elements purpose

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.

Thomas M. Disch

elements adults art

Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical - that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So this reductive account can also be described as a form of panpsychism: all the elements of the physical world are also mental.

elements form world

Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.

dialogue elements film

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

tablets smartphones elements

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.

Thorstein Veblen

elements becoming ends