Quotes About Elements

Truly wise men called on each element alike to minister to their joy, and while the touch of sun-bathed air, the fragrance of garden soil, the ductible qualities of mud, and the spark-whirling rapture of playing with fire, had each their special charm, they did not overlook the bliss of getting their feet wet.

My focus is on the rhythmic relationship between body and ground and the visual relationships among the elements of the always-changing scene.

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

Every religion contains, in varying degrees, elements of the soft and the hard. For the sake of world peace, dialogue within religions and among them must strengthen the softer aspects.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

On a warm spring day, a galloping horse was only too clearly a sweating animal of flesh and blood. But a horse racing through a snowstorm became one with the very elements; wrapped in the whirling blast of the north wind, the beast embodied the icy breath of winter.

The renowned astronomer Carl Sagan once said, "We are made of star stuff." And it is true. The same elements that make up the stars are also inside us. We are a part of a huge, amazing universe, a tiny speck of magick amidst a world full of marvels. So every once in a while, take the time to look at the stars and remember that you have star stuff (and goddess stuff and god stuff) inside you.

I like the way the word Witch connects us back through all the generations of those who went before us who harnessed the power of the elements and magick to improve their lives and deepen their connection with the natural world.

The name explains the structure: carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen bond into a ring-shaped structure called a cresol (also found in creosote), and phosphorus hangs on to the ring like an exhausted swimmer gripping a life preserver.

He asked that beautiful Yogini in his lucid dream. What do my five fingers represent? Yogini smiled at him, and said. Your body, as well as everything in this Universe, is composed of five elements, Deodatta. Your five fingers represent these five elements. Your thumb represents Agni or Fire, Index finger for Vayu or Air, middle finger for Gagan or Space, ring finger for Prithvi or Earth, and little finger for Aap or water.

A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

It's so many different elements to a film. Just learning the ins and outs and how the machine works.

I walked outside, into the welter of the stinging water, the gusting pockets of wind.

Charles Sherrington, the founder of modern neurophysiology, contended in 1947 that brain processes alone cannot account for the full range of subjective mental phenomena, including conscious free will. "That our being should consist of two fundamental elements offers, I suppose, no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on one only," he wrote.

El sempre es compon de molts ares.

They explored the nature of visual representation by reducing images to their essential elements of form, line, color, or light.

Earth, air, water, fire, In a circle we conspire, To make ourselves dumb so we might see, Across the veil to summon thee. As we are, so you once were. As you are, so we shall be. So may it be, So may it be, So may it be.

The Elements is arguably the most influential mathematical text in history.

There are things, elements in the world, that continue to exist, for whatever time, completely liberated from our delusion. They press us also, and we, of course, if we are to preserve the sullen but comfortable vacuum we inhabit, must deny that anyone else could possibly tolerate what we all agree is a hellish world.

The fertile earth imbibes the rain; The trees her moisture drink again; The swelling ocean drinks the gales, From him the thirsty sun exhales: The moon, as thirsty, copious streams Insatiate drinks of solar beams. In drinking, then, since all agree, What friend can justly censure me?

Aux yeux de niveau d'eau de niveau d'air de terre et de feu.

tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.