C. S. Lewis Quotes
The only non-Christians who seemed to me really to know anything were the Romantics; and a good many of them were dangerously tinged with something like religion, even at times with Christianity. The upshot of it all could nearly be expressed in a perversion of Roland's great line in the Chanson: 'Christians are wrong, but all the rest are bores.'
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My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
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Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
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God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
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One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.
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I'm so happy that I was able to make it to 120 games for Germany; 175 games would have been possible. I've had many great moments, but particularly the way the fans supported me and the road to the final in Rio.
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Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.
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I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.
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To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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Trump has raised the very issues I raised in the early '90s.
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A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.
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Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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The only non-Christians who seemed to me really to know anything were the Romantics; and a good many of them were dangerously tinged with something like religion, even at times with Christianity. The upshot of it all could nearly be expressed in a perversion of Roland's great line in the Chanson: 'Christians are wrong, but all the rest are bores.'
