Quote of the Day

Aragorn: What do you fear, lady?

Éowyn: A cage. To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

–From The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Author: Keith Humphreys

Keith Humphreys is the Esther Ting Memorial Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University and an Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at Kings College London. His research, teaching and writing have focused on addictive disorders, self-help organizations (e.g., breast cancer support groups, Alcoholics Anonymous), evaluation research methods, and public policy related to health care, mental illness, veterans, drugs, crime and correctional systems. Professor Humphreys' over 300 scholarly articles, monographs and books have been cited over thirteen thousand times by scientific colleagues. He is a regular contributor to Washington Post and has also written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Monthly, San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian (UK), The Telegraph (UK), Times Higher Education (UK), Crossbow (UK) and other media outlets.

2 thoughts on “Quote of the Day”

  1. If I might suggest a more recent if less elevated candidate for quote of the day, here is Neal Boortz complaining about the coverage of the Asiana crash on the Fox News Channel:

    “So here’s the problem…. People who hear absurdities solemnly presented in the coverage of a major aviation story are very likely to lose confidence in the political side of Fox reporting as well.”

    http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/38943.html

  2. Tolkien at his most nearly feminist. Tho a good man does come along to save her. It’s striking at least that he put her in the book.

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