Sarumans Quotes & Sayings

Heckman discovered that when you consider all kinds of important future outcomes - annual income, unemployment rate, divorce rate, use of illegal drugs - GED recipients look exactly like high-school dropouts, despite the fact that they have earned this supposedly valuable extra credential, and despite the fact that they are, on average, considerably more intelligent than high-school dropouts. — Paul Tough

If I thought I'd been drawn to her, now I knew, I'd been taken,
kidnapped,
caged,
destroyed,
and all the other things that went with someone having complete power over another. — Kenya Wright

He must have a magical dick because there's no way I'd keep dating someone who cheated on me every week. — Skyla Madi

I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French. — Colson Whitehead

I spend my life wrestling my own mind over so many things. I chose to be noble even if it slips from my grasp at times — K. Farrell St. Germain

I don't want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise. — Etty Hillesum

This house was the only home he'd ever had, and he'd shared it with his mother up until two years before, when Dad and Chad moved — Janet Mock

He needs to be able to fix things and make it all better; to believe that you're okay so that he can believe that he's okay. — Katja Millay

Don't make your wedding a pleasant memory in this life but a source of misery in the next. Make it an eternally good memory. In trying to have a halal wedding, you might sacrifice many relationships but the opposite might mean sacrificing the only relationship that will matter in the hereafter for a bunch of people who don't even really care about you. Don't make one night the cause of your regret for an eternity. — Omar Suleiman

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts. — Henry David Thoreau

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished. — Christopher Columbus

I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees. — J.R.R. Tolkien

My boyfriend says I dress like a rock star but I would say my style is hip and comfortable. — Lana Parrilla

Self-consciousness, however, does hinder the experience of the present. It is the one instrument that unplugs all the rest. So long as I lose myself in a tree, say, I can scent its leafy breath or estimate its board feet of lumber, I can draw its fruits or boil tea on its branches, and the tree stays tree. But the second I become aware of myself at any of these activities
looking over my own shoulder, as it were
the tree vanishes, uprooted from the spot and flung out of sight as if it had never grown. And time, which had flowed down into the tree bearing new revelations like floating leaves at ever moment, ceases. It dams, stills, stagnates. (Harper Perennial Edition 82) — Annie Dillard