"I will not walk backward in life."

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J. R. R. Tolkien

#Past Quotes #Walks Quotes

“Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.”
“The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.”

Source : Lauren Willig (2015). “The Lure of the Moonflower: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.259, Penguin
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
“[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.”
“She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.”
“A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.”
“I have a responsibility to my children to be fit and healthy.”
“It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.”

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