Absorb Elements Quotes & Sayings

Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation. — Theodor Adorno

We must cooperate to turn this country around; otherwise there will be no more future to speak of for our children. — Rex Resurreccion

Most people think great god will come from the skies, take away everything, and make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth. — Bob Marley

There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline. — Sam Kean

As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life — Haile Selassie

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids. — Antonio Banderas

Unlike other human religions, they worshipped something that truly existed. Also unlike other human religions, it was the Lord who was in crisis, and the duty of salvation fell on the shoulders of the believer. — Liu Cixin

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential. — Gijs De Vries

It is the lineaments of the years which form the countenance of the century. — Victor Hugo

We need his kingdom to "come." Calvin believed there were two ways God's kingdom comes - through the Spirit, who "corrects our desires," and through the Word of God, which "shapes our thoughts. — Timothy Keller

(I resent people who use phrases like "my first," so the person they're speaking to is practically obliged to imagine them having sex to complete the sentence. It's not nice.) — Anna Maxted

Uh, I'm thankful for you all, even if you get on my nerves sometimes," Carmine said. "Oh, and orgasms ... definitely thankful for those. — J.M. Darhower

You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them. — Evangeline Lilly

The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental. — Wyndham Lewis

I do see, in some younger writers, elements and things that I have used - and I am very touched and flattered because I am part of a tapestry that is being absorbed by authors. — Isobelle Carmody