Elemental Quotes
102 quotes by 91 authors
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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…
— Saint Augustine
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Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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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…
— Henry Beston
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The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the activity of the…
— August Weismann
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The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast…
— John Burroughs
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It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We…
— Austin Phelps
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An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage…
— Jean Giraudoux
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I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off…
— Jacqueline Cochran
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
— Albert Einstein
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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…
— Albert Einstein
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At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy…
— Lynne McTaggart
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To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that…
— Robin Williams
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
— Maggie Smith
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I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there is always something…
— Christopher Nolan
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Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can…
— Edward Abbey
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There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty…
— Hannah Arendt
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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…
— Emile M. Cioran
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The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life…
— Albert Schweitzer
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I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from…
— David Foster Wallace
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Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival.
— Bettina Boxall
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