"I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings."

-- Tom Perrotta

#Frodo Quotes #Lord Quotes #Rings Quotes

“The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for what he saw as the tedious process of achieving consensus through debate and discussion and tried to justify his solitary exercise of power by insisting it was what Iran needed to catch up with lost time. He believed he was more patriotic than anyone else and needed no advice on how best to promote and protect the highest interests of the nation.”
“Today in Sri Lanka, Pope Francis visited a Buddhist temple. When asked why, the Pope said, 'Just keeping my options open. It's a dicey job market. You never know.'”
“The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.”
“Good people drink good beer.”
“It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.”
“We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.”
“One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.”

Source : Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.62, University of Chicago Press
“When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil...”

Source : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Norman MacAfee, Luciano Martinengo (1982). “Poems”, New York : Random House

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