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Do not go to the elves for council for they will say both yes and no.


J.R.R. Tolkien

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Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
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Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves ...
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Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves ar...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic...
ORLANDO BLOOM Focus is saying YES by saying NO
RONNI GUGGENHEIM A few will say no, but many will say yes…remember that every No will get you closer to the many ye...
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EVANGELINE LILLY I don't think it's right for us to say 'yes' or 'no.'
HAL GERSHMAN Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived...
PAUL DI FILIPPO When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS... As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a p...
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JOHN HOWE The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
TONY BLAIR You will be remembered for what you do, not for what you say you will do.
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HERMANN HESSE Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
DAN MILLMAN Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes
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MARY SHAPIRO To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elb...
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They will say pretty things then
leave you with scar...
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EMINEM All it takes is just to say yes to God and He will do magnificent things.
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XENOPHANES Steal not this book for fear of shame

For on it is the owners name

And when yo...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Until you learn how to confidently say NO to so many things, you shall always say YES to so many thi...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You want a scoop? I will not run for County Council again. Any elected position, it really belongs t...
CHAD PROSSER SWSWSWSW Whenever you ask anyone for anything, remember the following: SWSWSWSW, which stands for �...
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HECTOR LOPEZ Saying yes comes very easily to me and, more often than not, I get into situations that could have b...
LATIKA TEOTIA Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man ou...
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PETER JACKSON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does...
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DAVID TALBOT If I say I do not believe in faeries or elves or trolls, does this imply that I have a set of belief...
KELLI JAE BAELI The man once wrote: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to ang...
JIM BUTCHER But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.
JON KRAKAUER I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu...
C. JOYBELL C. Of course, they will use watever they have in their hand, which is the U.N. Security Council, and ou...
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD Learn to say No to customers out of your target, those in your target will learn to say Yes to you.
MOHAMED GHULOOM Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying th...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying t...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying th...
UNKNOWN ! Elbereth Gilthoniel! silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! We still remember, we who dwell...
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AVIDAN WEITZMAN I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walm...
BENNY BLANCO We had some council members who tried to do the right thing, but they had no voice.
IMA GRAHAM When you say NO you miss so many things, dare to say YES and experience moments in your life you wil...
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GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end h...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo gave a cry, and there was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing like...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Now is the hour come, Riders of the Mark, sons of Eorl! Foes and fires are before you, and your home...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The way is shut.
Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why, Sam,” he said, “to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the
story was already writ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind ther...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastr...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And Iluvatar spoke to Ulmo, and said: 'Seest thou not how here in this little realm in the Deeps of ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN A divine 'punishment’ is also a divine 'gift’, if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessin...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wi...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief f...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calami...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's b...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for une...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family o...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fare well we call to hearth and hall
Though wind may blow and rain may fall
We must away e...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You do not understand' said Pippin. 'You must go - and therefore we must too. Merry and I are coming...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'
Pity? It was Pit...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to re...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also re...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good a...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathom...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least cor...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN ...in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN