Saisinajumi Quotes & Sayings

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force. — Mahatma Gandhi

Unable to meet his steady gaze, I shifted my attention to the stream and cursed myself for being a terrible liar. Actually, allow me to clarify that: I'm great at lying to myself. I'm super crummy at lying to others. — Penny Reid

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote. — Samuel Johnson

The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around him an environment that is a projection into nature of his abstract ideas. It is only in the present century that the collective landscape has emerged as a social necessity. We are promoting a landscape art on a scale never conceived of in history (Geoffrey Jellicoe, Landscape of man) — Tom Turner

I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true. — Dana Spiotta

That all pretensions to being self-made hide the reciprocal truth, that we have unpayable debts to the world around us, to our community, to our forebears, to the ancients, to nature, to the gods. — Lewis Hyde

Prayer is a discipline in truthfulness, in honesty. — Marilynne Robinson

It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors. — William Bernbach

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. — Arianna Huffington