J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Brain
  • Air
  • Body

• Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Enemy

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

  

  Abraham Kuyper
  • Faith
  • Peace
  • Friend

• The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Up
  • Time
  • Take

• In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

  

  Kate Adie
  • War
  • Enemy
  • Propaganda

• As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Truth
  • Enemy

• To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Country
  • Business
  • Law

• I learned how to shoot when I was pretty little.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Pretty
  • Little
  • How

• Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Bad
  • Enemy
  • Intelligent

• An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

  

  Saadi
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Kindness

• The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Today
  • Enemy
  • Plan

• I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • You
  • Enemy
  • Try

• Even at 10 or 12, I was a hot, fast little cheerleader.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Little
  • Hot
  • Fast

• Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Enemy

• The writer must take the right to explore, warts and all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges towards justice just ahead of Yeats's beast slouching to be born.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Enemy

• There had to be an end of slavery. Then we were fighting an enemy with whom we could not make a peace. We had to destroy him. No convention, no treaty was possible. Only destruction.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • Fighting
  • Enemy

• The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

  

  Democritus
  • Men
  • Women
  • Enemy

• A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Enemy

• This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Children
  • Book
  • House

• You can make an album, and people won't get it. Or won't connect with it. Or won't - whatever is going on in the universe at that time, it doesn't really register.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Universe
  • Album
  • Connect

• It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Enemy
  • Little
  • Attack