C. S. Lewis Quotes
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.C. S. Lewis
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Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
Karin Fossum -
Freedom is never given; it is won.
A. Philip Randolph -
Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
Larry David -
It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.
Dan Buettner -
We all know that a call-up to the Springboks (South Africa national team) is a major achievement and the rewards, especially financial, are huge.
Ashley Johnson
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I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.
Christina Aguilera -
I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.
Charlie Daniels -
I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.
Louise Brooks -
This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.
Oprah Winfrey -
When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.
Lisa See -
When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.
Anna Friel
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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
Oscar Wilde -
... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
Freya Stark -
Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -
The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.
Nolan Bushnell -
No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.
Tom Stoppard -
That is a risk. Risk/reward, life's chances. There's always that part of it.
Chan Gailey
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No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.
Larry David -
We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
Allen Tate -
A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
Daniel Boulud -
Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.
Albert Einstein -
The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.
C. S. Lewis