J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Dollar

• A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Religious
  • Compassion

• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Freedom
  • Security
  • Plan

• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Think
  • Happiness
  • Depend

• Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Relationship
  • Healthy
  • Empowering

• You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Water
  • Sweet
  • Lose

• What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • War
  • Reality
  • Freedom

• I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Chance

• You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • You
  • Chance

• We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Relationship

• I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Different
  • Play
  • Ready

• I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Home
  • She

• I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I was growing up and getting more serious about acting, at that point, he was the biggest actor in the world.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Up
  • World
  • Love

• I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Character
  • Respect
  • Lost

• I play well with everybody.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Play
  • Well
  • Everybody

• Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.

  

  La India
  • Women
  • Man
  • Respect

• We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • World
  • Truth
  • Search

• I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I just love to be on my skis, skiing with my friends, just going out into the mountains and being in nature and skiing some powder. That's the best thing.

  

  Candide Thovex
  • Friends
  • Nature
  • Skiing

• It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith

• When I turned 50, I threw myself a big birthday party, and I looked seriously at what my life has been about. I recommend this to everybody. Ask yourself, "What have I done? How did I do it? Where'd I mess up? Where did I do well?" When I did this assessment of my life, I said to myself, "It was really good." I made a lot of people laugh, made a lot of people cry in a good way, brought a lot of joy to people, picked up a lot of garbage. And in all those years, I saw a lot. I went to foreign lands. I met interesting people. And I got it!

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Done
  • Waiting
  • Reset