"I am dreading the publication, for it will……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at."
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love…
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed…
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My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
— Unknown Author
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Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.
— Lord Byron
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A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid…
— Ronald Reagan
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I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.
— Dorothea Dix
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
— Oliver Reed
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Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous,…
— Albert Pike
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A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be…
— Bertrand Russell
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Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having…
— Gabrielle Reece
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Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading…
— James Whistler
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How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the…
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