C. S. Lewis Quotes

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

C. S. Lewis

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• I like to prove people wrong.

  

  Zach LaVine
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  • Wrong

• I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Me
  • Always

• If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
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• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Life
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• When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Fear
  • Respect

• I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • People
  • Day
  • End

• Our players are mad, but it's good mad.

  

  Nancy Lopez
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  • Mad
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• I've lived most people's dream by playing football.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • People
  • Dream
  • Football

• I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • People
  • Wish
  • Everyone

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Job
  • End

• People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Challenge

• People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Socialism

• If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.

  

  Chan Khong
  • People
  • Giving
  • Peace

• Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Trying

• Sustaining innovation is the lifeblood of any enterprise. It is the time when we capitalize upon, and recover from, all the disruptive change prior. Most of the operating profits in the world come from sustaining innovation. Much of the market capitalization gains, on the other hand, come from disruptive innovations.

  

  Geoffrey Moore
  • Innovation
  • Gains
  • Enterprise

• Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he's very valuable.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Many people don’t realise just what a valuable lifeline libraries can be.

  

  Jo Cox
  • People

• We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • God