J.W. Lord Quotes

Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward, ” he explained.

Upon hearing the news I felt completely emptied. Emptied of life, feeling, and hope. I felt as if my very soul had left my body.

First no tooth fairythen no santaand no godand then your parents are only humanyour government is corruptand the universe is a hologram.

In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what’s going to happen. But knowing what happens isn’t the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part.

There is no good or evil, there is only power and those too weak to weak it.

Summer crushes happen all the time, right? Because you feel far away from the real world, everything seems more...possible. Every person seems more vital.

Endurance is not the frail and tenuous thing some think it, but is in reality the measuring rod of our sanity and may be safely stretched to fill our direst need.

Heroes rarely get to rest when they desire to.

I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be won. If awoman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

I could not 'make' you--except by force, which would break your mind.

You are free. The world is yours. got take it.

The way to be brave was to behave as if she were not afraid, even though she was.

The main thing we can learn from The Lord of the Rings is that we who are in a position to save the world (by which I mean all of us) do so primarily to save our friends.

Success is all about believing, always visualizing what you want to do and want to be and act accordingly on it until become it reality.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.

I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily.

He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill but he will do very few things.

Theirs not to make reply Theirs not to reason why Theirs but to do and die.

Advice is seldom welcome and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Ring out the old ring in the new Ring happy bells across the snow.

Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

The old order changeth yielding place to new.

You must look into people as well as at them.

The ideal committee is one with me as chairman and two other members in bed with flu.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Theirs is not to reason why theirs is but to do or die.

When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out for if people are unwilling to hear you you had better hold your tongue than them.

The old order changeth yielding place to new and God fulfills himself in many ways.

A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.

God's finger touched him and he slept.

Sunset and evening star And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

A delusion a mockery and a snare.

I was born to other things.

There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds

England expects every man to do his duty.

Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory.

When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

Socialism has been preached for so long the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

What's up is faith what's down is heresy.

There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds.

When a man is once in fashion all he does is right.

A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony nor without civility.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.