“We had to do this because our governments would not make the elemental statement that we stand with Denmark against this atrocious campaign of lies and hatred and violence.”
Christopher Hitchens
“Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.”
Henri Bergson
“There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord. She is never sad but when she sleeps, and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say she hath often dreamt of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing.”
William Shakespeare
“His life was gentle, and the elements / So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, / This was a man!”
“It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.”
Jack Kerouac
“Not to sound on a pedestal about women, but the reality is, we bring a completely different element to it just because we are women,”
Charlize Theron
“To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.”
William James