J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • Up
  • Education
  • College

• What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Up
  • Real
  • Want

• I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Long
  • Rock
  • Last

• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Optimistic

• With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Faith
  • Movies
  • Superhero

• Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Together
  • Change

• I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • World
  • Remember
  • Thought

• I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Stand

• This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

  

  Gary Hart
  • You
  • Leave
  • San Francisco

• I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Important
  • Think
  • Fairness

• When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Best
  • Thought
  • First

• Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Faith
  • Status Quo

• To the new International that is now in the irreversible process of preparation we can contribute the ideas of worldwide organization and the world state; the English can suggest the idea of worldwide exploitation and trusts; the French can offer nothing. ...

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • World
  • English
  • Organization

• Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Friends
  • Cold

• When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot, he said. The doctors used to say, 'Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound - this is what I had to go through.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Men
  • Women

• It was the most enthralling episode in my life

  

  Edward Heath
  • Life

• The Olympics are an opportunity to redefine the country, but the message is always wrong.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Band

• Time wounds all heels.

  

  Jane Sherwood Ace
  • Time

• Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Friends

• Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Influence

• I have been able to enjoy the strides that others have made before me. I don't want to scoff at the idea that there was sexism, but I don't wake up in the morning and think, 'I am a woman in tech.' I just go to work, and my work is in technology.

  

  Alexa Hirschfeld
  • Up
  • Work
  • Technology

• I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

  

  E. B. White
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Morning
  • Despair
  • Ring