Nishie Quotes & Sayings

There is a difference - subtle but very significant - between having faith in my faith (i.e., faith in my intellectual concepts about God - another way of saying "leaning on my own understanding") and having faith in God. There is a corresponding difference between doubting my faith and doubting God. — Brian D. McLaren

Nobody steals my pegasus. Not even Rachel. I wasn't sure if I was more angry or amazed or worried. — Rick Riordan

I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are. — Richard Wagamese

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I just miss - I miss being anonymous. — Barack Obama

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season. — Arsene Wenger

One of the functions of landscape it to correspond to, nurture, and provoke exploration of the landscape of the imagination. Space to walk is also space to think, and I think that's one thing landscapes give us: places to think longer, more uninterrupted thoughts or thoughts to a rhythm other than the staccato of navigating the city. — Rebecca Solnit

We'll take up where we left off, Esther', she had said, with her sweet martyr's smile. 'We'll act as if all this were a bad dream.'
A bad dream.
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
A bad dream.
I remembered everything. — Sylvia Plath

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think. — Patricia J. Williams