Pelargir Quotes & Sayings

Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely
to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other. — Maya Angelou

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft. — Lawrence Hargrave

At last she interrupted with a harsh rattle of laughter. "Oh, yes, I like this book! Crazy hopes of a glamorous, rich, colorful life and then abduction, rape, slavery. That book, at least, is true."
"It is not true. It is a male sex fantasy."
"And life for most women is just that, a performance in a male sex fantasy. The stupid ones don't notice, they've been trained for it since they were babies, so they're happy. And of course the writer of that book made things obvious by speeding them up. What happens to the Blandish girl in a few weeks takes a lifetime for the rest of us. — Alasdair Gray

On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of seals around Monomoy Island. We are fortunate to have such abundance of these sharks in our own waters. Around the globe, we are killing in excess of 100 million sharks each year. — Brian Skerry

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Adversity Isn't to Be Avoided — Miles Anthony Smith

Folk wisdom: quaint sayings of urban sophisticates compiled from the suburbs. — Bauvard

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole. — Jane Yolen

What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise. — Shigeru Miyamoto

Failure is an excuse for losers to hide from life and the same failure is an energy booster for winners to transform their lives — Keerthi Singhe

Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up. — Erma Bombeck

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now. — Eckhart Tolle

I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was one of the many inconveniences of this paradox I lived with -the more people I was surrounded by, the more frighteningly alone I felt. — Sarah Silverman

I want to grab him by the wrist and head back into the woods, tell these guys, sorry but I found him first. — Jandy Nelson