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!
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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.
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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.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.
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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.
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People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
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I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
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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.
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When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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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. ...
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.
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Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
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I am so blessed to be able to get up in the morning and go to a job I love, with fantastic people around me.
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People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
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It might have been the entrance to some holy place, so strange and solemn was the quiet; and looking from out of its shadows to the brightness shining at the upper end where the sun was flooding the bracken with happy morning radiance, I felt suddenly that my walk had ceased to be a common thing, and that I was going up into the temple of God to pray.
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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!
