C. S. Lewis Quotes

It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

C. S. Lewis

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• The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trying
  • Inspired
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• Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
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• And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

  

  Walter Isaacson
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• It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • People
  • Family
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• My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Girl
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• Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Important
  • Me
  • Trust

• One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.

  

  Karen Mills
  • People
  • Important
  • Know

• Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

  

  P. T. Barnum
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• I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Fear
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• I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Business
  • Myself
  • Always

• Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
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• Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

  

  Vanessa Marano
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• Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future.  And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Hope
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• I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Drinking

• Pleasant, a steed in a leather halter; Also pleasant, alliance with a king. Pleasant, the hero that destroys not the yielding; Also pleasant, the splendid Cymraec language.

  

  Taliesin
  • King
  • Hero

• P. 31.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• I have fled in the shape of a raven of prophetic speech, in the shape of a satirizing fox, in the shape of a sure swift, in the shape of a squirrel vainly hiding. I have fled in the shape of a red deer, in the shape of iron in a fierce fire, in the shape of a sword sowing death and disaster, in the shape of a bull, relentlessly struggling.

  

  Taliesin
  • Death
  • Fire
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• Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually triumph. Though it is noble not to give in easily, the most alive people I've ever met are those who embrace their death. They love, laugh and live more fully.

  

  Andy Webster
  • Death
  • Fighting
  • Event

• There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Chance
  • Period
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• There is nothing like widespread poverty to boost a country's equality index.

  

  Bob Tyrrell
  • Poverty
  • Equality
  • Index

• It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Death