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Own Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to…
- All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.
- My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts…
- Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to…
- We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat…
- In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
- You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all…
- I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the…
- Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have…
- For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as…
- The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden,…
- I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from…
- I would have things as they were in all the days of my life . . . and in the days of my longfathers before…
- Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here…
- I cannot,' said Merry. 'I have never seen them. I have never been outside of my own land before. And if I had known what…
- A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might…
- There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark:…
- Nay! Alas for us all! And for all that walk in the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find…
- Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet…
- One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface…
- He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He…
- It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.
- It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves.…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov