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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I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.
Christina Aguilera
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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
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I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.
Louise Brooks
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This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.
Oprah Winfrey
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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
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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
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... 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
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Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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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
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No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.
Tom Stoppard
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Paul, we are going to kill you. That is cool, then I will go to Christ. Ok Paul, we are going to let you live. That is great, then I can witness Christ. Ok, then we will torture you. That is fine, then I will receive a reward in Heaven one day.
Tony Evans
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Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.
Dolly Parton
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Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals.
Edward Joseph Schwartz
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Thankfully, it is getting better for women composers. We now have five women Pulitzer Prize winners in music since 1983: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Shulamit Ran, Melinda Wagner, Jennifer Higdon, and Caroline Shaw. When Marin Alsop was asked what it felt like to conduct the Last Night of the Proms, she said, "I am exceedingly proud to be 'the first' but I am also a bit shocked that there can still be firsts for women in 2013!"
Barbara Harbach
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I don't care what's probable. Through blood, sweat, and tears, I am unstoppable.
Anthony Robles
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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
