Mielavs Drum Quotes

#1. I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds.

Ellen Barkin

#2. Digestion is quickly shut down during stress ... The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of digestion. Along comes stress: turn off parasympathetic, turn on the sympathetic, and forget about digestion.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#3. And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.

E.J. Patten

#4. Flidais nods in approval. "Respect for life. Good."
I want to ask where her respect for life is, why she thinks it is all right to treat animals like puppets and force me to kill one of them in some sort of sick game.

Kevin Hearne

#5. I don't believe in God. I believe something is happening, I'm not sure what it is.

Sonny Barger

#6. In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#7. He should be careful of the influence of those with whom he consorts, and he runs a great risk in becoming a member of a large society, for large bodies tend toward the leveling of individuality to a common consent, the forming and adherence to a creed.

Chaim Potok

#8. To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get together some plans. Then set some goals.

John C. Parkin

#9. Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

Ernest Renan

#10. No one seems to consider that even people who are thought to be intellectually impaired can change as they grow older.

Martin Pistorius

#11. I find it interesting I couldn't hear The Creator's voice until I realized it was female.

Peter Wilkes

#12. Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

Noam Chomsky

#13. The blood of our Christian brothers is a witness that cries out..If they are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, it is not important : They are Christians. The blood is the same: It is the blood which confesses Christ.

Pope Francis

#14. Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.

Anthony Giddens

#15. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, s yet he opened not his mouth; t like a u lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

Anonymous