Uldis Mierkalns Quotes & Sayings

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is. — Juan Cole

We don't yet have a body of scientific knowledge about evil to be called a facet of psychology. Therefore, religious reasoning for actions will always be at the discretion of the psychologist, thus making them the judge and jury over what is delusion and what is a spiritual experience that has to be sedated. — Shannon L. Alder

It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty. — Kevyn Aucoin

Prickly
When I'm feeling
porcupine-y,
I get nasty,
I get whiny.
Stay away or
I might stick you.
My sharp words are
quills to prick you. — Laura Purdie Salas

It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story. — Thomas Berry

What i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it — David Levithan

After the meeting, Guay met with Verville for a debriefing. Guay reports that Verville said that all investors would have to roll to avoid a market collapse. Guay told Verville that on Monday, at the first chance to roll its maturing paper, the Caisse should not be the only investor rolling in a particular trust. If that happened, it would end up in a worse position than not rolling at all. — Paul Halpern

When you feel this knowledge and this spark in yourself, you've gotta continue feeding it. The best thing is to spend time around other wise men, that keeps it burning. That keeps it in every degree sharp as steel, but make sure you absorb enough to find out how it sparks from yourself, how the self starts the self. Once you've got that you should be free. That's freedom, to me. — RZA

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket. — William Wordsworth

If you rescue me from my pipe dreams, I'll stop smoking fantasies. — Munia Khan

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. — Jim Rohn

Yes, I was mad at God because of the cancer diagnosis. I thought I should have been protected because of the work I do in the world. — Debbie Ford

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it. — Rachel Kushner

There are two kinds of family. There's the family of your flesh, and the one of your heart. One builds character, the other rewards it. — Sheila Roberts