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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• When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
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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
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

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

  

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

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Mind
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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
  • Help
  • Death
  • Leaving

• I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
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• I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
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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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  • Family

• 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
  • Life
  • Real
  • Remember

• Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • People
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• I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with all his elegance. The Duke then came backstage, and I was there with my band. That's the one thing I miss.

  

  Maynard Ferguson
  • Remember
  • Night
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• Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Mind

• My path forward was the opposite of theirs and theirs was the opposite of mine. It distilled itself down until all that was left was the argument. And maybe, lurking just beneath that, the hatred.

  

  Hank Green
  • Path
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• Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.

  

  Faith Evans
  • People
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  • Career

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

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Remember
  • Death