J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.
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The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
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Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
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We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.
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You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.
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It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider’s web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.
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A notable scheme has occurred to me.
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Ἀψυχίᾳ γὰρ γλῶσσαν ἁρπάζει φόβος.
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
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Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
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Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn't the greatest feeling.
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Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.
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There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle.
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My fashion resolution for 2015 is to continue to be inspired by all of the great designers of the past and present while keeping true to my style and myself.
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I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.
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I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.
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I really, really don't think that, outside of maybe some pink wigs, [that] there's anything that separates me from every other woman in America.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
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A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
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I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.
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'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was a huge influence on me as a kid. It looked like a really fun job.
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No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.
