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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c166084 | Here Tolkien states, in indirect form, one of the deepest of Christian truths: all love that is not ordered to the love of God turns into hatred. | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| 7f24477 | To console Pippin about the treachery of Gollum, Gandalf reminds him that "a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend" (3.89)." | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| 66e0f3a | What makes Galadriel such a remarkable figure is her serenity amidst the coming defeat of her realm and her people. Far from resigning herself to any sort of fatalism, she desires only that the ought shall become the is: "Yet if you [Frodo] succeed, then our power is diminished, and Lothlorien will fade, and the tides of Time will sweep it away. We must depart into the West, or dwindle to a rustic folk of dell and cave, slowly to forget and.. | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| edab1e0 | Sam Gamgee is the ultimate hero of The Lord of the Rings because he is the ultimate servant. | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| 03c0f4b | satirical against those who called him an escapist for creating the fantastic world of Middle-earth: "The notion that motor-cars are more `alive' than, say, centaurs or dragons is curious; that they are more `real' than, say, horses is pathetically absurd. How real, how startlingly alive is a factory chimney compared with an elm-tree: poor obsolete thing, insubstantial dream of an escapist!" (MC, 149)." | Ralph C. Wood | ||
| 4bf56fb | Ana thought eyebrow rings were stupid. She liked earrings, and she could understand nose rings, belly-button rings and even pierced tongues, but metal sticking out of random facial places like eyebrows just looked to her like shrapnel from a booby-trapped jewelry box. She didn't like it. The fact that Garth's eyebrow was obviously infected proved that she was right, and that the universe didn't like it either. | John Joseph Adams | ||
| 8c96587 | It is... easy to see why Authority frowns on Friendship. Every real Friendship is a sort of secession, even a rebellion... Hence if our masters... ever succeed in producing a world where all are Companions and none are Friends, they will have removed certain dangers, and will also have taken from us what is almost our strongest safeguard against complete servitude. C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves | Colin Duriez | ||
| aae6e12 | He discovers that God is the very source of our existence. As Lewis will put it: "He is the opaque centre of all existences, the thing that simply and entirely is, the fountain of facthood." | Colin Duriez | ||
| e27e22e | I see no reason why we should fill our every waking hour with brooding over the evils of the day. At least you will admit it is fun to lean back in a comfortable chair on a cold rainy evening, [...] and escape into the pages of an extravagant romance, if only for an hour or two. | Lin Carter | ||
| 86c2ac2 | I meant to ask Hatty questions about the garden,' Tom wrote to Peter, 'but somehow I forgot.' He always forgot. In the daytime, in the Kitsons' flat, he thought only of the garden, and sometimes he wondered about it: where it came from, what it all meant. Then he planned cunning questions to put to Hatty, that she would have to answer fully and without fancy; but each night, when he walked into the garden, he forgot to be a detective, and i.. | Philippa Pearce | ||
| 38c1d7e | Was his brother's name Cain?' asked Tom. Hatty pretended not to have heard him. This was particularly irritating to Tom, as it was what he had to suffer from all the other people in the garden. 'Because the story of Cain and Abel is in the Bible, and Cain really killed Abel. I don't believe this Abel who gardens here has anything to do with the Bible Abel--except that he was called after him. I don't believe this Abel ever had a brother who.. | Philippa Pearce | ||
| 52da093 | Fathers--dressed | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 312b046 | Everyone that is not a noble," he lamented, "is a slave." | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 9039b7e | Lafayette was a splendid man...with a marvelous, self-depreciating sense of humor. He was, for example, balding noticeably when he reached an Indian outpost...and he calmed his wife's anxieties by noting that "I cannot lose what I do not have." | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 4c2e968 | Now he recognized that protection of national interests was the raison d'etre of all governments, whether born of revolution or not. Expansion of individual liberties had simply been a by-product of the American Revolution because it was essential for uniting the American people and, therefore, in the national interest. Tyranny--indeed, Napoleon--had been the by-product of the French Revolution, because it was essential for maintaining the .. | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| de08c20 | Monroe's presidency made poor men rich, turned political allies into friends, and united a divided people as no president had done since Washington. | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 097f524 | Napoleon Bonaparte--proclaimed an end to private property. "The earth belongs to no one; its fruits belong to every one," declared Francois Noel Babeuf. "There is but one sun, one air for all to breath. Let us end the disgusting distinctions between rich and poor . . . masters and servants, governor and governed."1 As the poor rose in rebellion and joined equally deprived soldiers in rioting, Napoleon rallied them to his banner, assuaging t.. | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 59f6be2 | Monroe | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 2be8b64 | Daniel Shays, a farmer struggling to keep his property, convinced neighbors that Boston legislators were colluding with judges and lawyers to raise property taxes and foreclose when farmers found it impossible to pay. | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 98078f0 | He supported Jefferson's proposed Land Ordinance of 1784,22 ceding Virginia's western territory to Congress for division into fourteen future states in which "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude." Congress defeated the Ordinance by one vote." | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 473a9f7 | America is on the point of bursting into flames, | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| a6f92e7 | By March 1766, colonist boycotts had proved so costly to British merchants that Parliament repealed the stamp tax without having collected a single penny. | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| c67a66b | which are plainly adapted to that end, | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| dfa4346 | At the end of June 1783, Monroe's first year of government service came to an end. Although he had accomplished nothing, he had done no less than his colleagues - which is exactly what Virginia planters had elected them to do. | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| c9f33f7 | He was curious, courteous, open - never arrogant or condescending - and generous to a fault. Abigail Adams later noted his "agreeable affability," "unassuming manner," and "polite attentions to all orders and ranks"..." | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| d9a4004 | history informs us that the passage of dethroned monarchs is short from prison to the grave."18" | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| bce6966 | Monroe also saved Tom Paine, whose revolutionary fervor had inspired him to become a French citizen and win a seat in the Convention. When Paine voted against executing King Louis XVI, however, Robespierre sent him to prison, where he languished in ever-deteriorating health until Monroe rescued him in November 1794, and brought him to La Folie to recuperate. | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 557735f | obligations to the United States, ladies and gentlemen, far surpass the services I was able to render. These date back to the time when I had the good fortune to be adopted by the United States as one of her young soldiers, as a beloved son. The approbation of the American people . . . is the greatest reward I can receive. I have stood strong and held my head high whenever, in their name, I have proclaimed the American principles of liberty.. | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 6335893 | Respect," he declared, "forms the basis of every negotiation with these powers. The respect which one power has for another, is in the exact proportion of the means which they respectively have of injuring each other with the least detriment to themselves." | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| f92c207 | And to Virginia governor Edmund Randolph, who also favored a bill of rights, he explained, "The human race is too apt to rush from one extreme to another.... For now, the cry is power; give Congress power, without reflecting that every free nation that hath ever existed has lost its liberty by the same rash impatience and want of necessary caution." | Harlow Giles Unger | ||
| 97c71a3 | Honorable men do not steal young girls away from their home no matter how much thy want to be stolen. | Andrew Joyce | ||
| 0652d63 | I think we can manage a little more than that,' he promised. His hand was creeping up her top now, her breast soft and warm beneath his fingers. This was so much more than a kiss as his fingers skilfully caressed her nipples. | Carol Marinelli | ||
| 5f56fdc | her to fly away and develop a career in art, but then little had he known that he would not be around to make that possible. She only became aware that something was different when, still absorbed in her own thoughts, it dawned on her that the bar had grown silent. In the act of pulling a pint, she raised her eyes and there, framed in the doorway, was one of the most startlingly beautiful men she had ever seen in her life. Tall, windswept d.. | Carol Marinelli | ||
| 171fd36 | summer tourists were long gone, the Christmas shoppers had left and it was just bare and beautiful and recovering, getting ready to start all over again. | Carol Marinelli | ||
| 80bc9b3 | Where did you go?" "Around." "The weather was good?" "Yeah." "It didn't rain?" "Nope." "That's good." "Yeah." Talking like this is like throwing small, round stones __ nothing can be built from them, except perhaps the cairn of a lost conversation." -- | David Levithan | ||
| a4d9526 | I had Cairne composed after my fourth tour, mind you. It was all legitimate; none of that business on the black market. As if the peacekeepers wouldn't find out." His co-pilot said nothing, and it occurred to Hyken that maybe he was being rude. Here I am blabbering about my biological riches when this one has none of his own. So he said, "How many children do you want?" | David Kristoph | ||
| 8a8f3f1 | If her soul were a room, it was as if a light were now shinning in a corner that had been dark. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| eb23719 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days." When she" | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 2cf6afb | She might not be completely at peace with the past, but rubbed along with it because it was part of who she had become. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 8938493 | But you just know when someone's there, don't you? You can feel them in the house, as if--oh, I don't know, I'm an old woman rambling--but it's as if your heart knows that their heart is beating somewhere and everything's all right. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 3e96d58 | May I not sit in judgment. May I be open to hearing and accepting the truth of what I am told. May my decisions be for the good of all concerned. May my work bring peace . . . Charlotte | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 36c0e68 | on by whatever it is he's | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 49bb933 | Fear can be used in all sorts of ways to control people, and that's what he's done." They took a few" | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| da9b1b6 | The truth always finds a way, Maisie, in some manner or form. You cannot deliberately change the course of the river without causing a flood or drought somewhere else. | Jacqueline Winspear |