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Quotes About Elements

In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee.
~ Jakob Bohme
These lion runs are more advanced in that we are sensing ourselves in relationship to where we are. Awareness puts us in tune with the elements. This elemental connection is part of being alive.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Awareness puts us in tune with the elements. This elemental connection is part of being alive. We are too often indoors, unaware of the elements. The elements are not our enemies: we ourselves are made of the elements. When we connect with them, they inspire us and make us stronger, allowing us to communicate with the world in much subtler ways.
~ Sakyong Mipham
The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society's values, can force it to change.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Sajak kecil tentang cinta Mencintai angin harus menjadi siut... Mencintai air harus menjadi ricik... Mencintai gunung harus menjadi terjal... Mencintai api harus menjadi jilat... Mencintai cakrawala harus menebas jarak... MencintaiMu harus menjadi aku
~ Sapardi Djoko Damono
Don't trust the fire, for it will burn you. Don't trust the ice, for it will freeze you. Don't trust the water, for it will drown you. Don't trust the air, for it will choke you. Don't trust the earth, for it will bury you. Don't trust the trees, for they will rip you, rend you, tear you, kill you dead.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.
~ Umberto Eco
The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.
~ Daniel Schacter
Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.
~ John Milton
There are certain elements that Scripture prescribes for corporate worship services of the church. Many theologians refer to these as the elements of corporate worship, and they include the following: 1) Preaching34 2) Sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Table35 3) Prayer36 4) Reading Scripture37 5) Financial giving38 6) Singing and music
~ Mark Driscoll
In the same way that certain sections of the city were mortal battlegrounds, some parts of the calendar were always more warlike than others, and during the days between Christmas and the new year all elements seemed to conspire to subdue the soul. Fire, rain, sickness, cold, and death were everywhere spread through the dark as in a painting of hell. People struggled until exhaustion, giving everything they had, and the days were packed with trials and mysteries.
~ Mark Helprin
When sodium, an unstable metal that can suddenly burst into flame, reacts with a deadly poisonous gas known as chlorine, it becomes the staple food sodium chloride, NaCl, from the only family of rocks eaten by humans.
~ Mark Kurlansky
The business, as respected three-star chef Scott Bryan explains it, attracts 'fringe elements', people for whom something in their lives has gone terribly wrong.
~ Anthony Bourdain
synergistic relationship of these five elements exerts a force that's
~ Anthony Robbins
All the elements of an Epic poem are found in Tragedy, but the elements of a Tragedy are not all found in the Epic poem.
~ Aristotle
For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements. Plainly therefore in the science of Nature, (15) as in other branches of study, our first task will be to try to determine what relates to its principles.
~ Aristotle
Besides which, the most powerful elements of emotional interest in Tragedy — Peripeteia or Reversal of the Situation, and Recognition scenes — are parts of the plot.
~ Aristotle
As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.
~ Aristotle
The first set make the underlying body one—either one of the three5 or something else which is denser than fire and rarer than air—then generate everything else from this, (15) and obtain multiplicity by condensation and rarefaction. Now these are contraries, which may be generalized into 'excess and defect'.
~ Aristotle
For political science does not make men, but takes them from nature and uses them; and nature provides them with food from different elements of earth, air, or sea.
~ Aristotle
Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.
~ Sigmund Freud
If this is what happens, then a transference and displacement of the psychical intensity of the individual elements has taken place; as a consequence, the difference between the texts of the dream-content and the dream-thoughts makes its appearance.
~ Sigmund Freud
The thought suggests itself that a psychical power is operative in the dream-work which on the one hand strips the psychically valuable elements of their intensity, and on the other creates new values by way of over-determination out of elements of low value; it is the new values that then reach the dream-content.
~ Sigmund Freud