J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Marriage
  • Clothes
  • Worst

• I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Hair

• The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Human
  • Liberty
  • Sense

• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Angels

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Born
  • Pessimist
  • I Was Born

• In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • King
  • Overcome

• When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Women
  • Sometimes
  • Speak

• It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Men
  • Art
  • Myself

• Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Men
  • May
  • Political

• I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Always
  • Liberty
  • Traditions

• There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Important
  • Justice

• Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.

  

  Young Thug
  • You
  • Rap
  • Brains

• I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Women
  • Humor

• An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Perfection

• This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • You
  • Class
  • Lower Class

• The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!

  

  Urbain Le Verrier
  • Observation
  • Conjecture

• You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

  

  Michael Crichton
  • Missing
  • Tomorrow
  • Planets

• Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that 'all of our problems' come from such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Goals

• I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options, Seth muttered. Then you've started down the road to wisdom, Grandpa replied.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Wisdom
  • I Hate
  • Options

• The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Adventure
  • Changes
  • Tomorrow