Agnes Whistling Elk Quotes & Sayings

95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want. — Merle Haggard

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying? (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.) — Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain. — Karl Marx

Persons under the shock of genuine affliction are not only upset mentally but are all unbalanced physically. No matter how calm and controlled they seemingly may be, no one can under such circumstances be normal. Their disturbed circulation makes them cold, their distress makes them unstrung, sleepless. Persons they normally like, they often turn from. No one should ever be forced upon those in grief, and all over-emotional people, no matter how near or dear, should be barred absolutely. Although the knowledge that their friends love them and sorrow for them is a great solace, the nearest afflicted must be protected from any one or anything which is likely to overstrain nerves already at the threatening point, and none have the right to feel hurt if they are told they can neither be of use or be received. At such a time, to some people companionship is a comfort, others shrink from their dearest friends. — Emily Post

KIDS IN DISTRESSED FAMILIES ARE GREAT repositories of silence and carry in their bodies whole arctic wastelands of words not to be uttered, stories not to be told. — Mary Karr

If our opponent is to be made to comply with our will, we must place him in a situation which is more oppressive to him than the sacrifice which we demand; but the disadvantages of this position must naturally not be of a transitory nature, at least in appearance, otherwise the enemy, instead of yielding, will hold out, in the prospect of a change for the better. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work. — Kenzaburo Oe

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus. — Theodor Mommsen

Political solutions-accountable to the people and enforceable by their elected representatives- deserve another shot before we throw in the towel and settle for corporate codes, independent monitors and the privatisation of our collective rights as citizens. — Naomi Klein

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office. — John Jay Hooker