Secchezza Quotes & Sayings

Sitting there, I remembered two things about going to mass with my father: he never took Communion because of his and my mother's divorce, and he always tapped his heart three times, with solemn insistence, after the recitation of the Apostles' Creed. I asked him about his ritual once. His eyes filled with such alarm that I instantly knew his heart tapping had something to do with a loss or devastation: his parents' early death, his divorce, his wounding in Vietnam. There was no reason for me to invade that space. Maybe that was the best simple explanation for religion: it filled our spaces. — Tom Bissell

If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay
any eggs in the basket — Bobby Robson

I read: This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.
I started to cry. — Jeanette Winterson

What was the appeal? Particularly from the very young? A need to belong? some twisted tribal urge? how easy it is for the power-hungry to seduce those who want answers. But were they that different from myself? We all want answers, we all want the "truth"--confirmation that the universe is a good place and that we're protected from harm. We all want to believe there is an order. — Connie Di Marco

A little extra wisdom never goes amiss. — J.K. Rowling

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food. — Lin Yutang

Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of the state of mind they are in. From that higher end, they can generate another state of mind. — Frederick Lenz

With my aunt, I definitely can relate to how she makes a movie because she does it with her own demeanor, which isn't this loud presence. — Gia Coppola

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. — Brene Brown

I understand that and I have had very candid discussions with Saudi leaders in the past. I respect their culture and their heritage and their traditions, but I think that they now, as they move forward, will have to start examining these traditions and these practices to see whether or not change is appropriate. — Colin Powell

Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands. — David O. Selznick

Fictions are useful so long as they are taken as fictions. They are then
simply ways of "figuring" the world which we agree to follow so that
we can act in cooperation, as we agree about inches and hours, numbers
and words, mathematical systems and languages. If we have no
agreement about measures of time and space, I would have no way of
making a date with you at the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth
Avenue at 3 P.M. on Sunday, April 4. — Alan W. Watts

Dictatorships must be feared to survive so they cannot bear to be mocked. — Garry Kasparov

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded. — Ramana Maharshi