Negretti Quotes & Sayings

The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history. — Richard Rohr

Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. — Siri Hustvedt

He will take you back, and he will destroy you. "I bring change," Rand said sadly. "Not peace, but turmoil." Destruction follows on my heels everywhere. Will there ever be anywhere I do not tear apart? "What will be, will be, Rhuarc. I can't change it. — Robert Jordan

Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose. — Nelly Mazloum

In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological. — Stephen Holmes

As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that included raising the children. But I think it's just as important for the father to give the baths, to hug, to change the diapers, to tell the stories. — Clyde Edgerton

You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other? — Judith Martin

Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow. — Benjamin Franklin