J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
Lance Armstrong -
The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
Dana Perino -
I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
Dan Brown -
Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
Sam Kean -
I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.
Kat Graham -
Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
Eddie Trunk
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
Zara Phillips -
One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
Cameron Dallas -
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
Jack Welch -
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
Samuel E. Morison -
I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
Jackie Robinson
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
Zig Ziglar -
Few things are as essential as education.
Walter Annenberg -
Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
Manuel Puig -
Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
J. C. Ryle -
As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
Randy Forbes
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I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I'm hoping they won't allow things to get in the way.
Halima Aden -
I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
Jack Gleeson -
It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
Barbara Castle -
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
P. L. Travers -
In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.
Questlove -
Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something.
J. R. R. Tolkien