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J.R.R. Tolkien

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CARL BARKS Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!
WILLIAM HAZLITT It is only when man cultivate humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
JOHN CONNOLLY A gap in skills and abilities reveal a golden opportunity!
ABHISHEK RATNA He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good whic...
WALTER SCOTT There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
J. K. ROWLING Negative people talk and your dreams begin to wither off. But they begin to sprout in the fragrance ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very z...
DALAI LAMA Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Perpetual optimism is good for the mind. Perpetual faith is good for the heart. Perpetual hope is go...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
J.K. ROWLING There is no good and evil, there is only power... and those too weak to seek it.
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it. 
J.K. ROWLING There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it …
J.K. ROWLING All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the ...
ALVAR N. C. DE VACA Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge i...
VERONICA ROTH Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and ...
RALPH BAKSHI In the end, rational policy is always good.
PAUL KEATING She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
ORIGEN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived...
PAUL DI FILIPPO Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE To get success and happiness in life concentrate your whole power and mind in the good work you are ...
PRIYAM PAL Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and...
ISOBELLE CARMODY American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will ...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came t...
PHILIP PULLMAN Contractors always take soil borings to determine any problems with the soil,
ED VARGO There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the...
TOM ROBBINS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical va...
C.S. LEWIS When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome vi...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow weal...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I've been preparing to be a drum major since I was a freshman. I always wanted to be more actively i...
AARON HIMES I'm happy to be young and in love - to be alive! I strongly believe - together we are able to save t...
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the oppos...
MAX WEBER The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
JOSEPH BARBER LIGHTFOOT Unexpected and pleasant surprises occur every day...random kindnesses from a stranger; would-be trag...
STEVE GOODIER There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody en...
MARIE DRESSLER There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody env...
MARIE DRESSLER I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good ...
RALPH BAKSHI Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing fo...
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE Let not one single life have passed in vain. What really matters is who you love and how you love.
OPRAH WINFREY The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Only once you destroy who you think you are can you embrace who you truly are.
SOMAN CHAINANI I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.
CHARLES VAN DOREN A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to P...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
AJAY DEVGAN If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has im...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
MORRIS RAPHAEL COHEN If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good
MORRIS COHEN No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON If you are inspired by someone's success & want to follow him/her, then it's better to choose his/he...
PRITISH PATTANAIK It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life that ultimately nourish our souls....
FRED ROGERS The glory of winning always lies in your beginning.
SRAVANI SAHA NAKHRO In order to advance, we have to take advantage not only of our success, but also of our failure.
GHASSAN SHAHROUR MD Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH On reality as motion: Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back...
ASGER JORN If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which o...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which h...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU [E]very action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes fro...
ANTONIO GRAMSCI Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
JOHN ADAMS seasoned operative should always check his or her perimeter at unexpected times and in unexpected wa...
ALLY CARTER ...And although thus short, we shorten many ways,
Living so little while we are alive;
In ...
ANNE BRADSTREET Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work with and the ...
CASEY KASEM Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Be the good in others, and you will see the good in others. Be the evil in others and you will see t...
PHILIP T. M. You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murde...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure...
ALEXANDER SMITH In this life evil men always wrought evil aided with the religious light called conscience.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.
HOWARD DEAN Good to evil seems evil
RAY BRADBURY Was it always in my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success become...
LILLIAN HELLMAN In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure...
ALEXANDER SMITH Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures,...
RADHANATH SWAMI In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judg...
THOMAS À KEMPIS My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people su...
NANCY FARMER In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for gr...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY We need to take time to do the least glamorous activity of gardening - digging and preparing the soi...
GREG STACK To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good l...
BUDDHA They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say...
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"Oh, that...
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'A cage,' she said.
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'Yes...
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does no...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The burned hand teaches best.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN No diré no lloréis, pues no todas las lágrimas son amargas.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN He thought much but said little.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altoget...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The King beneath the mountains,
The King of carven stone,
The lord of silver fountains
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail nev...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN May the hair on your toes never fall out!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN All's well that ends better.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Death is their fate, the gift of Ilъvatar, which as Time wears even the Powers shall envy.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN As the hound follows the hare, never ceasing in its running, ever drawing nearer in the chase, with ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Faithfulness in Christian marriage entails that: great mortification. For a Christian man there is n...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I am a Christian and of course what I write will be from that essential viewpoint.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are mad...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and p...
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!
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"W...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don’t like anything here at all.” said Frodo, “step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Where there's life there's hope.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That i...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and dange...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm an...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end h...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo gave a cry, and there was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing like...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Now is the hour come, Riders of the Mark, sons of Eorl! Foes and fires are before you, and your home...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The way is shut.
Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why, Sam,” he said, “to hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the
story was already writ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:
Of wind I sang, a wind ther...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It was Sam's first view of a battle of Men against Men, and he did not like it much. He was glad tha...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastr...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a smal...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And Iluvatar spoke to Ulmo, and said: 'Seest thou not how here in this little realm in the Deeps of ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN A divine 'punishment’ is also a divine 'gift’, if accepted, since its object is ultimate blessin...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wi...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief f...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calami...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's b...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family o...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fare well we call to hearth and hall
Though wind may blow and rain may fall
We must away e...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You do not understand' said Pippin. 'You must go - and therefore we must too. Merry and I are coming...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!'
Pity? It was Pit...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to re...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also re...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good a...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Do not go to the elves for council for they will say both yes and no.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathom...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least cor...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN ...in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN