C. S. Lewis Quotes
Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.
C. S. Lewis
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
E. Stanley Jones
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I've failed once or twice real big, independent.
Fat Joe
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
Vera Wang
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My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.
Sally Yates
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
P. G. Wodehouse
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
Gary Lineker
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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
W. Clement Stone
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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Tom Stoppard
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A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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I think I’d felt that as long as I avoided looking for the tickets, they would be there; it was only if I searched the archive that they’d disappear, as if the past were up until that point indeterminate, that I might outrun it. Do you know what I mean? We had to pay a lot of money to get the tickets for the next day; luckily they still had seats, although I suppose there are usually seats to and from Kansas City.
It was kind of like that, recovering the memory of what my father had done. The knowledge was always there, I carried it in my body, but I didn’t know what I knew, although I knew I knew something and that I dreaded knowing it fully, dreaded it as if only coming into the knowledge, into the memory, would make the event that I was repressing real.
Ben Lerner
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Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.
C. S. Lewis