Ministrelli Builders Quotes & Sayings

The temptation is to make an idol of our own experience, to assume our pain is more singular than it is. Experience means nothing if it does not mean beyond itself: we mean nothing unless and until our hard-won meanings are internalized and catalyzed within the lives of others. There is something I am meant to see, something for which my own situation and suffering are the lens, but the cost of such seeing - I am just beginning to realize - may very well be any final clarity or perspective on my own life, my own faith. That would not be a bad fate, to burn up like the booster engine that falls away from the throttling rocket, lighting a little dark as I go. — Christian Wiman

I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness. — Gerald Stern

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie. — George McGovern

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel. — Laini Taylor

I owe absolutely everything to HBO. — Emilia Clarke

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal. — Nawal El Saadawi