J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• I'm completely in love with the idea of love.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Completely

• Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Recycling

• If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Goals

• I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • Father
  • Actor

• When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • World
  • Painting
  • Decisions

• If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

  

  Anne Beatts
  • Criticism

• There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who will be invited to a lifetime of cocktail parties.

  

  Edward P. Jones
  • Believe
  • Famous

• There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Good
  • Purpose

• There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Place
  • No One
  • Fill

• None of my characters have really had jobs.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Character
  • Jobs

• All too many churchmen view the undisciplined & amoral products of statist education as evidences of the failure of these schools. On the contrary, they are evidences of their success.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • School
  • Success
  • Education

• I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Never
  • Winning
  • Tired

• We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . . . [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags.

  

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky
  • Up
  • God
  • Soul

• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Humor
  • Weapon
  • Incredible

• What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Me
  • Public
  • Glory

• Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live.

  

  Robert Frost
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

  

  Isak Dinesen
  • Change
  • Ruin
  • Worrying

• Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Good
  • Wish
  • Bread

• But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Glory
  • Weapon
  • Ruin