"For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and CÃrdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire of Orodruin night at hand... But Isildur refused this counsel, saying: 'This I will have as weregild for my father's death, and my brother's. Was it not I that dealt the Enemy his death-blow?' And the Ring that he held seemed to him exceedingly fair to look on; and he would not suffer it to be destroyed."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Brother Quotes #Father Quotes #Blow Quotes

“If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.”
“Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.”

Source : "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" by the International Military Tribunal, Vol. 5, (p. 134), 1947.
“Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?”
“I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.”
“There is more here than meets the eye.”

Source : Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.503, Tuttle Publishing
“Thatâ€™s what existence means: draining oneâ€™s own self dry without the sense of thirst.”
“Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!”

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