Elmstaba Quotes & Sayings

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently. — Gustav Landauer

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed. — Leo Kottke

Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by the work of the heart and is a function of arterial blood pressure and heart rate. — James Black

Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less tolerant, since ones real-world surroundings will not have the homogeneity of ones online clan. — Jim Horning

There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent, distilling in this process of contrast a sense of satisfaction, of richness that can be captured and pinned down only by those who possess the gift of awareness. — Louis Bromfield

Just a minute, Esther. Slow down and listen to me. How can Hashem answer such a prayer in the middle of a war? We are the ones who started this war, not Him. People are not puppets that Hashem controls, making us do whatever He wants. Nor can He be manipulated to do whatever we ask of Him. Human beings chose to start this war, and that means we are responsible for putting the people we love in danger, not Him. But Hashem can bring good from this, even if we cannot see it. — Lynn Austin

Because she was raw and uncertain, and she liked to keep all the messy parts of herself to herself ... As much as Lena liked to hide the mess and display the finished product, by this point she was all mess and no product. — Ann Brashares

The discovery that ordinary people are smart, smart people are ordinary, — Gloria Steinem

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism. — Jenna Bush

Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long. — Alex Chiu