All-girls schools

All-girls schools below the Mason-Dixon line produce southern belles; above it they bring forth liberal feminists.

—Kristen Boe, 9/9/2008.

LHC

Nothing will happen for at least four years. Then someone will spot a light ray coming out of the Indian Ocean during the night and no one will be able to explain it. A few weeks later, we will see a similar beam of particles coming out of the soil on the other side of the planet. Then we will know there is a little quasar inside the planet. As the spinning-top-like quasar devours the world from within, the two jets emanating from it will grow and catastrophes such as earthquakes and tsunamis will occur at the points they emerged from the Earth. The weather will change completely, wiping out life, and very soon the whole planet will be eaten in a magnificent scenario – if you could watch it from the moon. A Biblical Armageddon. Even cloud and fire will form, as it says in the Bible.

—Professor Otto Rossler, afraid of the Large Hadron Collider 9/10/2008.

Seeing the Future

What is the world coming to? When an anxious generation that has managed to survive the worst of wars, but is not too sure of escaping another war still more awful, asks this question of the scientists, what is the answer?

—Christabel Pankhurst, LL.B., Seeing the Future ©1929, ch3 p22.

Isaiah 45:19

I say not unto the seed of Jacob, "Seek ye Me in vain".

—Isaiah 45:19, KJV.

Elton Trueblood

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

—Elton Trueblood, in a plaque on the wall of the S.E. Belcher Jr. Chapel and Performance Center at LeTourneau University.

The Lord of the Rings

"I will tell you the tale of Tinúviel," said Strider, "in brief — for it is a long tale of which the end is not known; and there are none now, except Elrond, that remember it aright as it was told of old."

—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Book 1.

The Lays of Beleriand

Only the mighty of soul ... their doom can conquer, and in death only.

—J.R.R. Tolkien, The History of Middle-Earth III (The Lays of Beleriand), p121 (Christopher reports his father struck out these lines at the time of writing the Lay of the Children of Húrin).