{"id":3309,"date":"2015-01-05T19:46:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T02:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2015-03-07T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T18:46:34","slug":"new-quotes-added-dickens-tolkien-clarke-and-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/new-quotes-added-dickens-tolkien-clarke-and-rand\/","title":{"rendered":"New Quotes Added – Dickens, Tolkien, Clarke and Rand"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"QuotesHappy New Year! I thought I’d start out 2015 by adding some quotes to the site. \u00a0Here are some of my favorites from the new quotes.\u00a0Remember that\u00a0if you have a quote that you\u2019d like to see added to the site,\u00a0you can contribute a quote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Silmarillion<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0J. R. R. Tolkien<\/a><\/p>\n

Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world\u2014to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Fountainhead<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Ayn Rand<\/a><\/p>\n

Sound itself appeared to be frozen up, all was so cold and still.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Pickwick Papers<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n

The mind has many watchdogs; sometimes they bark unnecessarily, but a wise man never ignores their warning.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0A Fall of Moondust<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Arthur C. Clarke<\/a><\/p>\n

He seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge. He seemed a galvanizing apparatus, too, charged with a grim mechanical substitute for the tender young imaginations that were to be stormed away.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Hard Times<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year! I thought I’d start out 2015 by adding some quotes to the site. \u00a0Here are some of my favorites from the new quotes.\u00a0Remember that\u00a0if you have a quote that you\u2019d like to see added to the site,\u00a0you …<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[757,758,231,825,753,682,755,592,756],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-site-news","tag-a-fall-of-moondust","tag-arthur-c-clarke","tag-ayn-rand","tag-charles-dickens","tag-hard-times","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-the-fountainhead","tag-the-pickwick-papers","tag-the-silmarillion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t