J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.

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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
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Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
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I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.
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It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
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It's really important for your team to be not just feel empowered but actually be empowered.
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I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I came into advertising in 1961. I had been turned down for jobs on the Ford account in the late Fifties as 'not their type.' If it hadn't been for Bill Bernbach, I would now be sitting in some luncheonette, continuing my life as a messenger.
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Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him.