J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Faithful heart may have froward tongue.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Design

• O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Heart
  • May
  • Broken

• I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Everything

• While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

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

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • True
  • Hope

• I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • New
  • Creation

• Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Energy

• To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Job

• A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Heart
  • Society
  • Education

• When I was young, my parents were these titanic, infallible figures. But Mum's illness and Dad's battles with diabetes and heart attacks had a ripple effect on me - reminding me of my own mortality and that these illnesses are genetic.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Heart
  • Parents
  • Dad

• In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Heart
  • True
  • Matters

• Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

  

  Saadi
  • Heart
  • Eye
  • Lovely

• His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Great
  • Heart

• Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

  

  Patanjali
  • Heart
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • God
  • Heart

• You can tirelessly keep on reading the same author, revere, admire, praise him, exalt him to the skies, know and recite each of his sentences by heart, and yet remain completely unaffected by him, as if he had never demanded anything of you and not said anything at all.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Heart
  • Reading
  • Author

• I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Slave
  • Pen
  • Ink

• I found myself in too much of a box situation.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Myself
  • Box situation

• Always remember, Mr. Robarts, that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Remember
  • Door

• Faithful heart may have froward tongue.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • Tongue
  • Faithful