Tolkiens Mythical World Quotes & Sayings

It is an odd language, yours. You speak of passing time as in the Mountains we speak of passing wind. As if it were a thing to be gotten rid of. — Robin Hobb

Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet. — Ronald Reagan

Silver was too hard to be good ammunition. — Patricia Briggs

A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out of bed and into extinction. The decline of biological diversity is real and severe. The alarming loss of soil fertility, forest cover, and coral reef viability and the release of fossilized CO2 that nature put away 300 million years ago in its march toward greater diversity - all these "losses" and many others are the result of one life-form annihilating other life-forms in its immoral confusion of "dominion" with "domination." — Leonard Sweet

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters. — Burn Gorman

We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that
for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.'
There was no satisfactory answer. — Jonas Salk

That summer morning in the Lower Downs began as usual for Reuben Pedley. He rose early to have breakfast with his mom before she left for work, a quiet breakfast because they were both still sleepy. Afterward, also as usual, he cleaned up their tiny kitchen while his mom moved faster and faster in her race against the clock (whose numerals she seemed quite unable to read before she'd had coffee and a shower). Then his mom was hugging him goodbye at the apartment door, where Reuben told her he loved her, which was true - and that she had no reason to worry about him, which was not. His — Trenton Lee Stewart

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization. — Arthur Keith

I always tell Cristiano before training, 'If you do stepovers on me, I will break your legs and rip up your shirt.' I have no wish to have the mickey taken out of me all week. — Patrice Evra

It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up. — W. Somerset Maugham

It did what a foreign adventure is supposed to do-it made the mundane thrilling. — Stacy Schiff

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease. — Rick Warren

The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone. — Will Smith

The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them. — Peter Drucker