J R R Tolkien Christmas Quotes

#1. A human being is like a television set with millions of channels ... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#2. Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.

Terry Pratchett

#3. I think (Robert E.) Howard often wrote with his heart, but not always with his head.

Stephen Jones

#4. I have loved humanity, I have loved it so much. For me, there are three kinds of men; he who curses life, he who blesses it and he who contemplates it. I loved the first for his wretchedness, the second for his indulgence and the third for his perception.

Kahlil Gibran

#5. I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.

Bernadine Dohrn

#6. Show me a woman with both feet planted firmly on the ground - and I'll show you a girl who can't get her knickers off.

Kathy Lette

#7. If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.

Roy Bennett

#9. We Jews have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we promote both sides of the issue as confusion reigns. With their eye's fixed on the issues, they fail to see who is behind every scene. We Jews toy with the American public as a cat toys with a mouse.

Harold Wallace Rosenthal

#10. To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.

Alexander Pope

#11. Sometimes people want what they can't have and confuse that with feelings for another person.

Colleen Hoover