Quite Quotable
"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"Always act on instinct . . . It puts the sparkle in existence."
~ Gordon R. Dickinson, "The Monkey Wrench"
"There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen."
~ James Hilton, Lost Horizon
"Mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy."
~ Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
"The greatest truths lie within, always within. They cannot be given. They must be found."
Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower