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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.


J.R.R. Tolkien

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CORRIE TEN BOOM Sometimes worrying about something is much worse than the actual thing you’re worrying about. So r...
CHIP GAINES I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in tha...
CARL BARKS Your past, is your past, it has come and gone so stop worrying about it
SOTONYE ANGA I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writin...
CARL BARKS I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality...
SEAN BEAN Don’t spend time worrying about tomorrow, when today is passing you by.
VIKRANT PARSAI You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
JANIS JOPLIN It doesn't matter to me. As soon as I start worrying about who my center is, I'm worrying about the ...
BRODIE CROYLE Stop worrying about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Our vision is like tomorrow,for no one prays for tomorrow to manifest,it does so at Its own appointe...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived...
PAUL DI FILIPPO Ryan is the type of person who worries about people worrying about him. He's just been so unbelievab...
JAY BRANT Tolkien reintroduced the world of fairy tale to a new audience. It was a very traditional image of f...
TOM SHIPPEY Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional cu...
ROWAN WILLIAMS There was no point in being a stickler for time because the position was hopeless. There is a thaw o...
KIRKLAND TELLWRIGHT Don't hope for something cause it's hopeless, wait for it to come on its own time.
ALICIA FIGGS There are no hopeless situations -- only people who are hopeless about them.
DINAH SHORE One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow.
G. B. STERN The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical va...
C.S. LEWIS I've been doing it for 18 years, so it's about time to ride good. I'm just having fun and not worryi...
ADRIANO MORAES Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY The whole thing was quite absurd,
DANIEL RODRIGUEZ There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
CLARE BOOTH LUCE There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
JOHNNY CARSON The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money
JOHNNY CARSON An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.
GEORGE A. MOORE The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, i...
DENZEL WASHINGTON Just a moment ago, I was thinking of postponing my dream for tomorrow, but I decided to take a look ...
PHILIP T. M. No matter if you wait for tomorrow or not, it will come tomorrow.
VIKRANT PARSAI Think about every good thing in your life right now. Free yourself of worrying. Let go of the anxiet...
GERMANY KENT Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for ...
ANONYMOUS There are probably a lot of owners who aren't thrilled about it. This is something we feel is a good...
DEREK JETER There is no future in spending the present worrying about the past.
UNKNOWN I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, t...
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is ...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.
IAN MCKELLEN If there's no tomorrow why are we so worried about the future?
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KATSUMI NISHIYAMA I didn't think about that until it was pointed out. But Abigail's Party is one of my favourite thing...
JULIA DAVIS If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yeste...
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yest...
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE He feels better about it. He's healthier and feeling good and playing well and coming along real goo...
FRANK ROBINSON She would probably cry and wonder what in the world she had done to make the other swimmer mad. She ...
LINDA HOWARD When you're worrying about all this stuff, the last thing you want to worry about is a coach yelling...
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J.K. ROWLING You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN What if love and reality are big things, so big that we can only ever see a tiny bit and we think we...
LYSSA DANEHY DEHART I shall never come to the Punjab again; it is such a hopeless place.
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no...
DALAI LAMA XIV 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 Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipat...
J.K. ROWLING Tolkien didn't just write 'The Hobbit,' he created a whole world.
PETER HAMBLETON There's not quite so much going on, and that's probably a good thing. I'm always happy to see the fa...
JORDIN TOOTOO I'm looking at it as I'm the best fit for the job. And I don't worry about that. If I start worrying...
COACH KERMIT BLOUNT The good thing about cartoon is they have no limit.
IDDI LUKOO The big concern is tomorrow. What's tomorrow going to bring us if what they're predict happens? Then...
BRYAN MOORE I had a natural birth and, to be honest, it was all over with quite quickly. I would say the whole t...
LUCY MARSHALL They swung the bats pretty good, they scored a lot of run. We've got to come back tomorrow and do th...
RONNIE BELLIARD I've joked around with the whole 'if you build it, they will come' thing. I've been so fortunate tha...
GUY PEROTTI I'm excited just sitting on the Yard all day; I cant wait until homecoming, I've heard so much about...
ANDREA LEWIS He's probably got a large enough mandate worrying about the Olympics and he should confine himself t...
TED SASKIN The future is shaped by what the past has to offer... So if your shapes don't quite look like you pl...
WILSON J. WASHINGTON III There's also no evidence that simply worrying about a disease can make it worse.
ALICE DOMAR I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quit...
LAURA WADE We have to come out and bounce back and be ready to play tomorrow, period. We're right there, we're ...
JASON VARITEK You do it because the doing of it is the thing. The doing is the thing. The talkind and worrying and...
AMY POEHLER Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally...
K. A. PAUL No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
OSCAR WILDE No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
OSCAR WILDE Tomorrow is just another today, so spend every today like there is no tomorrow.
ANDREA ANDREEVA But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one yea...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.
MARK RUTTE There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.
DAVID DINKINS When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something...
JOYCE MEYER One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is...
NAPOLEON HILL The Internet is probably the most significant thing that has come along,
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DONNA JAMES Defensively, we've been quite good throughout the tournament, but really we've been quite good defen...
JOHN BRADY I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sl...
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT anything could happen. The one good thing to come from this is that (market) forecasting will probab...
NICK KNIGHT I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation...
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DENNIS FRIESTAD No one person knows much more about writing than another. I expect that when people think they know ...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
DON HEROLD Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow
DON HEROLD Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
OSCAR WILDE The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she w...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and de...
PETER YORK [This] is a whole different medium than I've seen in 'Alien,' 'Pitch Black,' you name all the sci-fi...
COLE HAUSER The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the b...
EVAN DAVIS The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole...
EMMA DONOGHUE One good thing about forgetting is that you can no longer worry about what ever it was you forgot.
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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 evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for une...
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