C. S. Lewis Quotes
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
Quotes to Explore
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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I've been training quite hard.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.
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I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
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Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.
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It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.
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The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
