Quotes of: Tolkien Keyword

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

Margrethe II of Denmark

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Albert Einstein

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

James Anthony Froude

In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.

Franz Boas

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

Alice Hamilton

A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.

Bernard Bloch

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

William Labov

What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.

Fair Game

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.

Jane Hirshfield

The dream too thinks twice, gets filtered to go soft to be seated on children's eyes.

Jeevanko Chheubaata

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

The Substance of Faith: And Other Cotton Patch Sermons

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

The Substance of Faith: And Other Cotton Patch Sermons

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.

Henry Martyn

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

Robert Fitzgerald

And they asked me to take a polygraph as to the allegations and reports I'd made. I volunteered and I took the polygraph and passed it without a glitch.

Sibel Edmonds

Let us be honest we have praised Angulimala, will make no difference If you convey my salute to Amrapali.

Suman Pokhrel

In this atmosphere Where you have to go perennially crazy only to survive, Which auspicious moment should I choose to become mad?

Suman Pokhrel

When this flood blocks the road I am worried more by my soil getting washed, than by getting late to reach my destination.

Suman Pokhrel