Dol Amroth Quotes & Sayings

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays. — Sherman Alexie

Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase. — Stephen R. Covey

What other hope does life hold out
But the miraculous, the skilled and patient
Execution, the teamwork, all the pain and worry every miracle involves? — Weldon Kees

Avoid success at all costs — Simon Peyton Jones

They're in love. Fuck the war. — Thomas Pynchon

A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others ... thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish. — C.S. Lewis

What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady; and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House. — Joseph Hume

Are you boiling bacon? "Um. Is that wrong?" I say. "Argh! I want to punch you!" Leo says. — Roan Parrish

As in this world there are degrees of evils,
So in this world there are degrees of devils. — John Webster