J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing.

I don't think anybody has that crystal ball but the president.

One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end.

No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

Predictions are so often, so wrong ... The future is just too complicated.

As I look down the path to the future I see before me the footprint of the hand of fate.

You never know how a good quest is going to end.

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

None of us really know where we're going.

Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if they're right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.

Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.

ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end.

I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined. It was comforting to me when I figured out that you don't have to know what you want to do with your life; you just have to take a few steps in one direction, and other opportunities will open up.

There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can't change where you've been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose.

Life is about where you are right now, and the choices you make.

It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

A president cannot make decision on what someone might know in the future.