{"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 &#8211; Dickens, Tolkien, Clarke and Rand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2765 size-full alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; margin-right: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/NewQuotesSm.gif\" alt=\"Quotes from Literature\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>Happy New Year! I thought I&#8217;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,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/submit-a-quote\/\">you can contribute a quote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Many are the strange chances of the world,&#8221; said Mithrandir, &#8220;and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Silmarillion\">The Silmarillion<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=J.%20R.%20R.%20Tolkien\">J. R. R. Tolkien<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Why do they always teach us that it&#8217;s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It&#8217;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~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Fountainhead\">The Fountainhead<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Ayn%20Rand\">Ayn Rand<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sound itself appeared to be frozen up, all was so cold and still.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Pickwick%20Papers\">The Pickwick Papers<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Charles%20Dickens\">Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The mind has many watchdogs; sometimes they bark unnecessarily, but a wise man never ignores their warning.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=A%20Fall%20of%20Moondust\">A Fall of Moondust<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Arthur%20C.%20Clarke\">Arthur C. Clarke<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>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~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Hard%20Times\">Hard Times<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Charles%20Dickens\">Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! I thought I&#8217;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 class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}