"We may stand, if only on one leg,……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees."
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight…
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He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a…
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a…
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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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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
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Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and…
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The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed…
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and…
— Margaret Atwood
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of…
— Hosea Ballou
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In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because…
— Gerry Adams
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Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your…
— Dave Barry
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When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees…
— Ethel Barrymore
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I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I…
— Mayim Bialik
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if…
— Ambrose Bierce
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If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot…
— Anthony Bourdain
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the…
— Pam Brown
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I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn…
— Kobe Bryant
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I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the…
— Kobe Bryant
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You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in…
— George H. W. Bush
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