Sopayam Quotes & Sayings

This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony. — Kavita Ramdas

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change. — Ann Landers

Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William Welch its John the Baptist, while Paracelsus and Cohnheim have been relegated to the roles of Lucifer and Beelzebub ... Actually, there are no heroes in Pathology-all of the great thoughts permitting advance have been borrowed from other fields, and the renaissance of pathology stems not from pathology itself but from the philosophers Kant and Goethe. — Harry S.N. Greene

Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world. — Malorie Blackman

The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence — Donald Rumsfeld

We have to burn brightly. We can't burn forever — Seanan McGuire

For a patrimonial state to be stable over time, it is best ruled with consent, at least with consent from the largest minority, if not from the majority. Instinctive obedience must be the norm, otherwise too much effort needs to be put into suppressing disaffection for the regime's wider aims to be achievable. Consent is, however, not always easy to obtain. The collective view of most societies is rather conservative: in the main people prefer to see the social arrangements of their youth perpetuated into their old age; they prefer that things be done in the time-honoured way; they are suspicious of novelty and resistant to change. Thus when radical action must be taken, for whatever reason, a great burden falls on the ruler, the father-figure, who has to overcome this social inertia and persuade his subjects to follow his lead. In order that his will shall prevail, he needs to generate huge respect, preferably adulation, and if at all possible sheer awe among his people. — Paul Kriwaczek

To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I answer through chattering teeth. As well as can be expected after a swim in angel-infested waters. — Susan Ee

It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed. — Alison Elliott