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World Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more…
- The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
- The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is…
- Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the…
- What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he…
- 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…
- Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the…
- There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been…
- And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing…
- The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And…
- For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Legolas shall be for the Elves; and Gimli…
- The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.
- The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work…
- If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
- In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them…
- The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though…
- And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended,…
- The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may…
- The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
- Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in…
- The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall...
- Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the…
- It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those…
- That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands.…
- The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach