#element

At St. Bernardine’s the nuns never liked me. Especially Sister Mary Bitch-and-a-Half. I think that was her biblical name. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#elementary-school #humor #nuns #catholicism

You know, it’s dangerous to touch me like that.” He gazed down into my eyes. “You didn’t seem to mind.” “That’s because I can control myself better than others. You have a date with danger or something?” That was an understatement. It was more like death. ↗

— Lynn Mullican

#dating

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#elementary #sherlock-holmes #simple #excellence

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#dimension #element #religion #transcendent

My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#becomes #difficult #element #especially #i

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#element #everyone #falsehood #learns #live

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#composers #different #different elements #elements #everything

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

#broke #consideration #elemental #leading #means

But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those elements in the region that are moving towards a reformed process and there are a number of them. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#democracy #elements #i #i think #impose

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time. ↗

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

#black holes #concepts #construction #elements #holes