J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.J. R. R. Tolkien
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
Wayne Dyer -
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
Quentin Tarantino -
It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
Dan Colen -
I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
Ralph Fiennes -
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Carlos Fuentes -
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
Samina Baig
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Dead men tell no tales.
Haniel Long -
I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
Yami Gautam -
If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
Patricia Velasquez -
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo Picasso -
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
Caitlyn Jenner -
The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him.
Garry Kasparov
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I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
Harold Prince -
There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.
Caitriona Balfe -
I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
Laura San Giacomo -
We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
Ian Hart -
With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.
Naomi Klein -
The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
Kahlil Gibran
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The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences
William Whewell -
What you constantly think about eventually becomes what you are.
Benjamin Smith -
Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart -
Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.
Saib Tabrizi -
I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.
J. R. R. Tolkien