Akamine Landscaping Quotes

#1. Old Magic, Old Ways, the Old Ones themselves often seem powerless in a new place.

Anne Cameron

#2. Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

Emile Durkheim

#3. Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#4. What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#5. I'd never be more than a toy to him, and the men in his family had a history of breaking their toys.
They just did it in different ways.

Joanna Wylde

#6. I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate.

James Nesbitt

#7. Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

Bennie Thompson

#9. Spring is the sacred soul of fertility.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.

Umberto Eco

#11. I now understand that there's a difference between giving up because you don't want to try and giving up because you know you're beaten.

Arno Geiger

#12. I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

Studs Terkel

#13. Analyze. Think, think, think. When you do, you will recognize that our ordinary way of life is almost meaningless.

Dalai Lama XIV