C. S. Lewis Quotes
Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.C. S. Lewis
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Sallust -
I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
G. Willow Wilson -
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West -
I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
Park Chan-wook -
I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
Action Bronson -
My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
Radhanath Swami -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
Madeleine Stowe -
We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
Natalie Wood -
The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.
Landon Donovan
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
Karine Vanasse -
It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
Daniel Cormier -
Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
Ed Wood -
I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.
Yusuf Hamied -
The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.
Sam Harris -
Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
Campbell Scott
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To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.
Adam Christopher -
The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
Brenda Lee -
People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.
Avey Tare Animal Collective -
There must always be a balance between protecting privacy and security. In our country, one of the ways we have struck that balance is by requiring a court order before law enforcement can access certain communications of and data on suspects.
Amy Klobuchar -
There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.
Bruce Willis -
Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.
C. S. Lewis