Nigaten Quotes & Sayings

You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others. — Stanley Hauerwas

For mother's sake the child was dear,
and dearer was the mother for the child. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But curiously, while artists always have a myriad of reasons to quit, they consistently wait for a handful of specific moments to quit. Artists quit when they convince themselves that their next effort is already doomed to fail. And artists quit when they lose the destination for their work - for the place their work belongs. — David Bayles

The hospital industry to this day works its tail off to do the right thing. — Rick Scott

Better, perhaps, to dress like a whore around the clock and thus achieve a fully integrated personality. — Chris Kraus

O how all things are far removed
and long have passed away.
I do believe the star,
whose light my face reflects,
is dead and has been so
for many thousand years.
I had a vision of a passing boat
and heard some voices saying disquieting things.
I heard a clock strike in some distant house ...
but in which house? ...
I long to quiet my anxious heart
and stand beneath the sky's immensity.
I long to pray ...
And one of all the stars
must still exist.
I do believe that I would know
which one alone
endured,
and which like a white city stands
at the ray's end shining in the heavens. — Rainer Maria Rilke

It was the oldest of tricks, to sow dissension between groups that had common interests. Good for deflecting attention from greater mischief, too. — N.K. Jemisin

People do affect us. But the peace of our souls is tethered to all that God is. — Lysa TerKeurst