Swimming Upstream

February 28, 2007

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

G. K. Chesterton, “The Five Deaths of the Faith” The Everlasting Man

Head in the Sand

February 19, 2007

“The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Ring

victory?

February 18, 2007

“hope is not victory”

J. R. R. Tolkien

Grave Miscalculation

February 17, 2007

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

. . . to breed a war

February 15, 2007

“It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Ring 

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