"He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a NazgÃ»l, endowed with the tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies, so hard and resistant to hurt that he went only in light shoes over rock or through snow, the most tireless of all the Fellowship."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Strong Quotes #Hurt Quotes #War Quotes

“My dad would always say, 'When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?'”
“Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.”

Source : Ayelet Waldman (2006). “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits”, Doubleday Books
“What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.”

Source : "The Letters of William Gaddis edited by Steven Moore - review" by Robert Potts, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2013.
“Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.”

Source : "Alastair Cook gives England total control against shambolic India" by Mike Selvey, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2011.
“My dream is for my flowers to act as beacons and rallying points across the planet - bringing people together on a global scale and through my art start a global conversation.”
“I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.”
“If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have...it is our humanity, and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.”
“People in the East Conference are starting to see how good the twins are. They make my job easy. I just go to the net and look for holes and they keep finding me.”

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