21 Elemental Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Great Nature Rain Wind Three Ocean Outer Beach Sound Sounds Wood Elemental

Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people. Atul Gawande

People Human Being Depend Sense Other Others Way More Trivial Simply Like Obvious Exist Normal Human Just Being Interaction Human Beings Social Requires Beings Company Each Elemental Creatures

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

Stupidity Earthquake Force Match Which Elemental

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice. Malcolm Gladwell

Justice World Illusion Important Everything Says Ourselves Some Idea Fairness Very Just Happen Psychology Which Us Convince Creates Theory Reason Elemental Things Things Happen

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school! Maxine Kumin

Today Alone Lie Simple School Scan Lay Facts Never Students Between Know How Line Been Discovering Graduate Graduate School Graduate Students Taught Difference Grammar Depressing Them Really Teaching Many Elemental Thing

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

Faith Justice Hurt People Nation Before Pain Cries Relationships Kindle About Lays Crucible Fires He Calling His American Race American People Deep Elemental Petition

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

There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam. Alija Izetbegovic

I just want my work to be part of the elemental world. Antony Gormley

Work World Part Just Want Elemental

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental. Hanna Rosin

Too Intimate Facts Does Much Realm Hard Elemental Belong Numbers

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 Time World Reflection Resort Consideration Broke Out No Time Misleading Leading Opinion Public Available Means Public Opinion Elemental Violence World War

Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord. Jean Giraudoux

Life Love Marriage Wife Rest Husband Other Never True Reached Discord False Same Whether Who Agreement Each Elemental Portion

There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires. Kate Bernheimer

Me You Struggle Marriage Abandonment Fears Parents Transformation Range Plots Find Sexual Some About Seem Absent Recurring Tales Look Sort Fairy Fairy Tales Around Revolve Often Stories Many Initiation Elemental Elements Desires

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

Physicality Outside Like Being Working Aspects Elemental Elements

I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter. Naveen Jain

As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties. Pankaj Mishra

Broad Globalisation Forces Century Loyalties Elemental Early

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities. Ruth Ozeki

Reality Light Power Single Own Say Possibilities Only Point Shape Particle Like Also Force Because Array Exists Fiction Which Should Elemental Image Images

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

Work Art Time Prevail Will Power Hidden Locked Never Over Forbidden Always Forgotten Ephemeral Elemental Away Innate Rejected

In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types. Terence McKenna

Time Matter Think Analysis Types Complete Out Carry Composed Fact Like Discover Discrete Going In Fact Elemental

I did psychotherapy for about six years. I stopped going regularly when I'd finished 'Elemental,' which I think probably says something. I think I'm moving on. Roland Orzabal

Moving On Finished Think I Think Says About Something Years Did Going Six Stopped Which Psychotherapy Moving Regularly Elemental

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