Nigate Quotes & Sayings

But simply punishing the broken
walking away from them or hiding them from sight
only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity. — Bryan Stevenson

Were board games named board games because most of the time you played them when you were bored? Hmm. — Micalea Smeltzer

A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all take time to grow, and so must a library. I wouldn't even know what books to go and ask for. I dare say, if I were to try, I couldn't at a moment's notice tell you the names of more than two score of books at the outside. Folk must make acquaintance among books as they would among living folk. — George MacDonald

I have actually directed over thirty plays and about one hundred commercials for cable TV, but have not yet had the opportunity to direct a feature film. — Sid Haig

And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone. — Lois Lowry

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.' — Aaron Sorkin

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate — Terry Pratchett

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
— Gregory Maguire

Piano
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.
So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour
With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past. — D.H. Lawrence

Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world ... but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon. — Qiu Jin

How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us! — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The trouble is, I'm writer, and most writers are terrible nosey parkers. — Roald Dahl

The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite. — Fulton J. Sheen

A tectonic plate's got to do what a tectonic plate's got to do. — N. T. Wright

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands. — Jesse Helms