J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Quotes to Explore
-
I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
Patrick J. Adams
-
That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
Naomi Watts
-
You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
Oscar Robertson
-
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
J. L. Austin
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate
-
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
-
I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
Nate Silver
-
Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
Xavier Niel
-
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
Malcolm Mclaren
-
If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
Vincent Cassel
-
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
Quentin Crisp
-
I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
Laura Mvula
-
Success is making a positive difference to other people, especially seeing others grow, succeed and thrive as a result of your own small contribution.
Azran Osman Rani
-
'Peace through Strength,' surely history's most exploded nostrum.
Christopher Hitchens
-
It was bothering me a lot, and I became addicted to pain medication, which is like what dragged me down. When we first started talking about this thing, I was like pretty much out of it, but I wanted to do it. So I needed to get myself overhauled, cleaned up and everything else to do this, because I wanted to do it, you know?
Mick Mars
Mötley Crüe
-
No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.
Douglas Hurd
-
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
J. R. R. Tolkien
