Eldamar Silmarillion Quotes & Sayings

From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation. — Henry Miller

It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright. — Robin Roberts

Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. — James George Frazer

You are made
out of comets
and stars.

Do not surround
yourself with those
that treat you like
dirt and dust. — Noor Shirazie

It seems to her that your family is at once utterly familiar and entirely unknown. — Penelope Lively

The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a person without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God. — Brooke Westcott

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously. — Cindy Gallop

When I set a goal, I work hard to achieve it. — Lisa Leslie

I think that always myself is my worst opponent. I always playing against myself first and then to the other one. So I'm playing against two guys during the match ... It's like mentally I don't know what is gonna happen in the next ten minutes. Maybe I get depressed in ten minutes. I don't know myself too much ... Yeah, I was working with a psychology, and I still. — Gaston Gaudio

We must understand the need for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever beyond criticism. No matter how many hours you spend to render something flawless, somebody will always be able to find fault with it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Gribshin considered what he had just seen. He knew it was important. It belonged to the future, he was sure, but was it his future. He too was pleased by the sound the lock made as it closed: it was something predictive. In the echoing tintinnabulation of the lock's components colliding hard against each other were conjured the sonances of rifle shots and beyond them smoky images of milling crowds. The sounds and images vanished without revealing to Gribshin exactly what they promised. — Ken Kalfus

Bishop, this is a full tithe and a little bit more, because that's the way we have been blessed. — Henry D. Moyle

Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions. — A.H. Septimius

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind. — Thom Yorke

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear.
To be we know not what, we know not where. — John Dryden