"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Life Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Travel Quotes

“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.”
“I should focus on other important issues like people's livelihoods and the economy.”

Source : "Hong Kong Leader Abandons Reforms". news.bbc.co.uk. January 12, 2006.
“Going through life without love is like going through a good dinner without an appetite -- everything seems so flat and tasteless.”

Source : Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”
“I've never met a successful pessimist.”
“Being asked where in Greece he saw good men , he replied, "'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.”
“I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S.”

Source : "Cbs Chief Isn't Worried About Youtube Or Google — 'as Long As We Get Paid'". Interview with Frank Rose, www.wired.com. May 16, 2007.
“The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.”
“We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.”

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