"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so â€” in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!"

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Adventure Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Dinner Quotes

“Everybody always wanted me to be sorry, I guess, and I am. And I'm tired of it. And I want to play football and, well, if I can't I'll have to do something else.”
“We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less selfishly, we also need to be grateful for the luck of where we're born and how we ended up where we ended up.”
“Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption sooner in your poor estate, than that which is nearest your own.”
“We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.”

Source : "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Speech at the London Interparliamentary Conference". The Advocate of Peace, Volume 68, No. 9, archive.org. September 1906.
“My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.”
“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.”
“The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.”
“We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies, and chocolate. Being so alone a hug meant more than anybody could imagine because that replaced the human worth that we were starving for. We were not only starved for food but we were starved for human kindness. And the Soviet Army did provide some of that.”

Source : "Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'" ("Liberation & Revenge", 2005), www.imdb.com. 2005.

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