J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
Magic Johnson -
A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
Kailash Kher -
To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.
Ian Frazier -
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
Walter Cronkite -
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
e. e. cummings
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
Nat King Cole -
However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
W. H. Davies -
Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
Patricia Polacco -
When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'
Hank Azaria -
I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
Patricia Polacco -
Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
Ralph Baer
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner -
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
J. M. Coetzee -
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells -
Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.
Sam Harris -
I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.
Ippy Aiona -
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
Barbara Tuchman
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We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
Ralph Peters -
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none
William Shakespeare -
I had already been one of the uncool students in my class and had few friends. But once you could see me on the TV, I was even more uncool.
Alexandra Maria Lara -
Positivity gives me a boost to do better. Negativity gives me a boost to try and prove people wrong. So I use both of them positively.
Salman Khan -
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
Brendan Behan -
It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
J. R. R. Tolkien