Quotes
Authors
J. R. R. Tolkien

"Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! And I have seen it only for an instant in the house of Elrond! Could I not have a sight of it again?" Frodo looked up. His heart went suddenly cold. He caught the strange gleam in Boromir's eyes, yet his face was still kind and friendly. "It is best that it should lie hidden," he answered. "As you wish. I care not." said Boromir."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Lying Quotes #Eye Quotes #Heart Quotes

“One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.”
“Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.”
“The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and downright heavy, is a feat worthy of deep respect.”
“The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.”

Source : William March, William T. Going, Richard Brough (2011). “99 Fables”, p.20, University of Alabama Press
“I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.”
“A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.”
“Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.”

Source : Kwame Nkrumah (1968). “Dark days in Ghana”, Lawrence & Wishart
“We really throw ourselves into our work and the details from your life show up from time to time in the finished film. Our personal experiences really help to bring shape to the movies we make at Disney.”

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