#elves

More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely. ↗

— John Howe

#deep #describe #elves #hard #how

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#everything #famous #nothing #others #people

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#ethnic #largely #ourselves #racial #terms

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. ↗

— Dean Inge

#always #attraction #contains #element #faith

THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#duty #fame #government #his #honour

I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car. ↗

— John Surtees

#because #being #car #come #competitive

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#french #geese #led #profound #swans

Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

#how #i #life #lucky #me

All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way. ↗

— Albert Speer

#any #been #both #effect #extraordinary

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. ↗

— David Antin

#before #between #children #distinction #frequently