#elemental

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#both #characters #different #different characters #elemental

If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#change #constitution #constitutional #convention #elemental

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

— Karl Kraus

#elemental #force #match #stupidity #which

It had been a long night already, and now here I was, locked in another fight to the death. Sometimes it just didn't pay to leave the house. ↗

— Jennifer Estep

#elemental-assassin #gin-blanco #death

He’s going to kill everyone on this planet, reduce the human race to dust. There will be no one to stop him. You are the only one who can. - Aiden Deverill ↗

— Alexandra May

#apocalypse #elemental-the-first #halíka-dacomé #science-fiction-romance #science

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

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions. ↗

— Charles Wagner

#certain #elemental #humanity #lived #lives

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#euclid #i #later #russell #taken

To sum up: all nature-spirits are not the same as fairies; nor are all fairies nature-spirits. The same applies to the relationship of nature-spirits and the dead. But we may safely say that a large proportion of nature-spirits became fairies, while quite a number of the dead in some areas seem to take on the character of nature-spirits. We cannot expect any fixity of rule in dealing with barbaric thought. We must take it as it comes. It bears the same relationship to "civilized" or folk-lore theory as does the growth of the jungle to a carefully designed and meticulously labelled botanical garden. As Victor Hugo once exclaimed when writing of the barbaric confusion which underlies the creative function in poetry: 'What do you expect? You are among savages! ↗

— Lewis Spence

#fairies #fairy #nature-spirit #spirits #victor-hugo

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#behind #discovery #elemental #feeling #helped