J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men.

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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia, and sometimes culminates in death.
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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men.