#ted

Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#help #unexpected #unexpected

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#tolkien #unexpected

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens. ↗

— Norton Juster

#unexpected

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears. I'd seen many things in his eyes in the time that I'd known him: lust, amusement, sympathy, mockery, caution, fury. But I had never seen this. Hope. Jericho Barrons had hope, and I was the reason for it. I would never forget his smile. It had illuminated him from the inside out. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#mac #unexpected

Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?" She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this... Brian Murrey tried to eat Scott Morgan." Nick's eyes widened at the unexpected explanation. Had he heard that right? ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#nick #odd #strange #weird #zombies

The expected always happens ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#unexpected #unexpected

I was never in love with someone else I never had somebody waiting on me 'Cause you were all of my dreams come true And I just wish you knew Taylor, I was so in love with you. ↗

— Owl City

#owl-city #dreams

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be? ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#iraq-war #poverty #terrorism #united-states #war

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war. ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#governance #iraq-war #lyndon-b-johnson #politics #united-states

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome. ↗

— Ian Buruma

#bigotry #cold-war #leftism #politics #united-states