Elementals Quotes

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  The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

  Henry Beston

  Beach, Nature, Rain

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.19, David R. Godine Publisher

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• There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  "Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs". Book by Morton A. Meyers, p. 14, 2007.

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• Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

  Charles Wagner

  Humanity, Provision, Certain

  Charles Wagner (2009). “The Simple Life”, p.28, The Floating Press

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• I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

  Maggie Smith

  Elements, Maggie, Aspect

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• The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

  Stewart Udall

  Giving, Environmental, Earth

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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• The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration

  Hjalmar Branting

  War, Mean, Reflection

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• I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Taken, Eye, Two

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Action, Force

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Rock... is the expression of elemental passions... In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Passion, Rocks, Expression

  "The Spirit of the Liturgy". Book by Pope Benedict XVI, 2000.

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• Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

  Stefan Zweig

  Art, Power, Ephemeral

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• When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Hurt, Pain, Fire

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• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

  Saint Augustine

  Children, Ambition, Work Out

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• I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

  Carl Sandburg

  Taken, Years, Literature

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.10, University of Illinois Press

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• Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

  Karl Kraus

  Stupid, Earthquakes, Force

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• Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

  Bill Griffith

  Levels, Way, Condescending

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• You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

  Marco Rubio

  Profound, Want, Able

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• The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

  Stewart Udall

  Brother, Native American, Son

  Stewart L. Udall (1988). “The quiet crisis and the next generation”, Gibbs Smith

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• If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.

  Larry Sabato

  Goal, Progress, Want

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• Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Depression, Fighting, Vitality

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• By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it clear that they never had any intention of restoring one of the most elemental human rights the right to belong to a free trade union.

  Ronald Reagan

  Rights, Organization, Majority

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

  Christopher Nolan

  Character, Keys, Stories

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• Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Melting, Chaos, Creation

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.151, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to grasp the bat, swing at the proper time, take a proper stance; all these are elemental. Batting is rather a study in psychology, a sizing up of a pitcher and catcher and observing little details that are of immense importance. It's like the study of crime, the work of a detective as he picks up clues.

  Ty Cobb

  Swings, Psychology, Bats

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• Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.

  Rob Delaney

  Funny, Running, Fear

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