Tolkien Elvish Love Quotes & Sayings

Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people. — Elie Wiesel

Sorry to disappoint you. He's not evil. He's just a jerk. Sometimes it's a fine line. — Kami Garcia

We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them. — David Zindell

I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world
that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war. — Howard Zinn

Defeating depression is like playing the carnival game Whac-a-mole. You have to give it your all and be on target to beat that sucker down when it pops up again and again. If you pay attention, learn from your past efforts, and keep at it, you can win." -Mel. Edwards — Mel Edwards

You people realize you're going to visit a person who is clinically insane in order to find out your future, right?' Lexie says. 'I mean, who's crazier, the person who's been put in a mental institution or the person who asks that person for advice? — Bree Despain

A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy. — William Faulkner

Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die. — Alexander Pope

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath. — Beth Moore

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. — Andrei Tarkovsky

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

She had to possess the courage to enter, through language, states which most people deny or veil with silence. — Adrienne Rich

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. — Albert Einstein

Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it. — Gerhard Richter