J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!
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I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
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A hair divides what is false and true.
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Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.
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My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.
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Everybody wants to be great at something.
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I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.
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My guess is that if David Beckham wants Ronaldo's jersey, he's going to get it.
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Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.
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A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
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I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.
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Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.
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Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
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Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
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Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.
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God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.
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It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.
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If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.
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But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
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We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!
