J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.
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All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
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The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
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If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
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Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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If this were a fairy tale, that meant the dragon had been slain. Or hadn’t arrived yet.
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Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king, before, but now A beaten warrior. None of his comrades Came to him, helped him, his brave and noble Followers; they ran for their lives, fled Deep in a wood. And only one of them Remained, stood there, miserable, remembering, As a good man must, what kinship should mean.
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Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge shift. You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America.
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We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it, and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.
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GO FOR HIS EYES! OR BITE HIM ON THE NOSE! DRAGON NOSES ARE VERY SENSITIVE!" Oh, very helpful, Camicazi, very helpful...thought Hiccup. What if he doesn't obligingly hold me up to his nose? What if the only part I get close to is the TEETH?
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Perhaps I am a foolish, fond old dragon who never learns from his own mistakes. But I have to believe that the humans and the dragons are capable of living together. I have to hope that the impossible can be possible. I have to trust in the boy and hope for the best...
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Does this look like a dragon who would poo in a helmet???
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You can Cheat a Dragon's Curse. You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.
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I think being a dragon would be pretty awesome... you get to fly.
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Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.
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The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.
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The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.
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Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.
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It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.
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It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no choice but to survive and move on. But it is the manner in which different cities respond to emergencies that sets them apart.
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I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.
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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.
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One of the things that the public sector banks need to do is to raise private capital from the market and not rely on government largesse.
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If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.
