C. S. Lewis Quotes

I have always - at least, ever since I can remember - had a kind of longing for death.'

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
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• Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

  

  Ian Botham
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• After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

  

  Lara Logan
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• A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
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• I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.

  

  Jack Falahee
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• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
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• I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

  

  Gary Hume
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• My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

  

  Laura Linney
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• I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
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• My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• A woman always remembers. Remember that.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

  

  Eamon de Valera
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• Under pressure, one of the most important things I have to remember to do is breathe.

  

  Curtis Strange
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• I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.

  

  Ben Webster
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• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  

  Walter Pater
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• There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

  

  Edith Head
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• We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

  

  Huston Smith
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• I have always - at least, ever since I can remember - had a kind of longing for death.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Remember
  • Death