Scourging Of The Shire Quotes & Sayings

It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside. — Isak Dinesen

In my innocent cynicism I didn't see that Cleveland was not trying to look tough; he just didn't care. Which is to say, he knew what he was, and was, if not content with, at least resigned to knowing that he was an alcoholic. And an alcoholic is nothing if not sensitive to the proper time and place for his next drink; his death is one of the most carefully planned and prepared for events in the world. — Michael Chabon

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world. — Jonathan Swift

Pulpits today are full of preachers telling one-legged people to jump higher and run faster. Musician Rich Mullins once wrote, "I have attended church regularly since I was less than a week old. I've listened to sermons about virtue, sermons against vice. I have heard about money, time management, tithing, abstinence, and generosity. I've listened to thousands of sermons. But I could count on one hand the number [of sermons] that were a simple proclamation of the Gospel of Christ."4 — Tullian Tchividjian

I love covering stories that have huge historic impacts. — Wolf Blitzer

The ugliest parts of you are your darkest. And trust me when I tell you that I want to love all of your darkest parts. — E.K. Blair

Fuck it.
Those lips belong to me.
They always have.
They always will. — Winter Renshaw

The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all the joy of life, And we in the mad spring weather, We two have listened till he sang Our hearts and lips together. — William Ernest Henley

Here or there, it is the same fight, I think, Loial — Robert Jordan

Day by day, I am becoming lonely. — A.P.

Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late. — Shannon Hale

The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically. — J.M. Coetzee