J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
Nate Parker
I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
Taylor Schilling
At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.
Saina Nehwal
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
Edmund Waller
I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
Lane Garrison
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
Karen Abbott
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
Seneca the Younger
Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Ultima ratio Regum
Cardinal Richelieu
I had the perm because I wanted wash-and-wear hair. I didn't want to be bothered with it.
Marcia Clark
I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
Cam Gigandet
Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.
J. R. R. Tolkien