C. S. Lewis Quotes

Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

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• The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

  

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• Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

  

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• I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

  

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• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

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• Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

  

  Zach Braff
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• When we're ill, one of the last things we have that we can enjoy is food.

  

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• I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

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• I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

  

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• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  

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• I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

  

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• I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.

  

  Dana Delany
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• When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

  

  Rachael Ray
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• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

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• Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

  

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• I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.

  

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• I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

  

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• The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

  

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• The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

  

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• I have found out what I am allergic to, and I am trying to avoid that in my daily food intake.

  

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• I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

  

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• I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.

  

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• I made myself a little boatAnd launched it on the sea ;And into the wide world went forthTo see what there might be.

  

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• Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Food