"Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!"

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Crush Quotes #Lost Quotes #Curse Quotes

“I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.”
“A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic.”
“Ex hoc momento pendet aeternites. (Eternity hangs from this moment.)”
“I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris
“To dance is to live ...to live is to dance.”
“My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.”
“You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel.”
“Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.”

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