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Wish Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that…
- 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see…
- But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more…
- Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel…
- But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I…
- Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll…
- I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and…
- Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! And…
- I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the…
- Good Morning!†said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under…
- And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered.
- I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!
More Wish Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine