Gildor Quotes

#1. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Is it not enough to know that they are servants of the Enemy?" answered Gildor. "Flee them! Speak no words to them! They are deadly.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. Come here." He gestures towards the door.
Would you get a load of this character?
Come here, he says, like I'll just do it.
I do.

A. Zavarelli

#4. The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history ... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#5. Every time it seems to me that I've grasped the deep meaning of the world, it is its simplicity that always overwhelms me.

Albert Camus

#6. One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

Mary Oliver

#7. She said it all mine and he smiled and said it all your's except you.

Archna Mohan

#8. Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.

Lee Smolin

#9. It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.

Douglas Hofstadter

#10. As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.

Robert Barany

#11. Vodka tonic with lemon.

Tracy Brogan

#12. Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Jonathan Swift

#13. But where shall I find courage?' asked Frodo. 'That is what I chiefly need.' 'Courage is found in unlikely places,' said Gildor. 'Be of good hope! Sleep

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. Her marble tears run down her marble face.
A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief.

Who has no words to say.

Whose shadow mind is burning
as he sits watching her hands
and thinks how rare!

to see a Roman
talk
with no gestures at all.

Anne Carson

#15. Every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing

Italo Calvino

#16. Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

David Gemmell

#17. And I swear, she tasted like the sun.

S. Gregory

#18. You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.

J.R.R. Tolkien