"Surely you donâ€™t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You donâ€™t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!"

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Adventure Quotes #Hands Quotes #Luck Quotes

“I don't know who St. Valentine was, but I hope he died alone, surrounded by couples.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 14, 2018
“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried to sue them for throwing her out of the theatre; it was that they took the law and used it to arrest her. That was really shocking to me. We had no laws in Canada actually requiring segregation, like they did in the United States. But here we had people using the law - the amusements tax act - to enforce segregation, and our courts allowed them to do that.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Humans are made from nuclear ash of dead stars”
“Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don't overdo it.”

Source : "Martina Navratilova On Staying Fit, Coming Out, Battling Cancer And Transcending Sports". Interview With Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.
“Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.”
“No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret but no, no regrets.”
“Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power-the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.”

Source : "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies". Book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2014.

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