J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

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• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  

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• He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

  

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• I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.

  

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• One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

  

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• It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.

  

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• My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

  

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• Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

  

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• No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

  

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• You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

  

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• Your body hears everything your mind says.

  

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• In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.

  

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• I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

  

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• At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.

  

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• Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.

  

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• I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

  

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• I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to be a better tweeter. I try not to tweet too much, just when I've got something worthwhile to say.

  

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• I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Publication