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Present Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was…
- The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and…
- I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
- I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that…
- Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask,…
- After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in…
- 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…
- The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless…
More Present Quotes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida