"It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. (Aragorn talking of Eowyn, in the Houses of Healing)"

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Queens Quotes #Flower Quotes #Healing Quotes

“One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?”
“There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable to me as it quite evidently appears to others. I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war. ... The cost of war in human lives is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones. I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war.”
“I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances”
“Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.”
“I think that in our culture there is this message to males that any time you can have sex with an attractive female, you should do it. But for females you always have to guard yourself against it, sort of keep sex at bay. You don't want to get a reputation, especially when you are under age.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don't have the tools to prevent it, because these require policy interventions in every arena.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Iâ€™ve had those relationships, and you have to make those mistakes to find out what we really want.”
“You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time”

Source : Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.179, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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