J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
-
Every morning I wake up and thank God.
-
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
-
It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
-
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
-
I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
-
Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
-
I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.
-
I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
-
I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.
-
Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
-
I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
-
Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
-
As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!
-
What good do you think it does to waller all over a horse thataway? said Rawlins.I dont know, said John Grady. I aint a horse.
-
I think I will be a great president having to do with the military and also having to do with taking care of our vets.
-
Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.
-
Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
-
A lot of the other companies in the space have really left a bad taste in regulators' mouths. It's actually been a huge advantage when we come in and we take the time to sit down and get to know them, explain the business, explain what we do.
-
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
-
I get this thing where people are like, 'Man, you got to tell me what to do' - like I have a cheat code to being successful. It's hard work; it's trial and error. I failed, but I never let failure get to my head or to my heart.
-
Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.
-
I had a very happy childhood; I just wasn’t a very happy child.
-
For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest.
