C. S. Lewis Quotes

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

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• I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Important
  • Doing

• I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Job
  • First
  • Old

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Country
  • Mother

• For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Choice
  • Bird

• Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Real
  • Fool
  • Genius

• My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.

  

  Yuna
  • Home
  • Attached
  • Malaysia

• The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • God
  • Love
  • Help

• They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Rock

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.

  

  T.I.
  • Reality
  • Television

• Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Remember
  • Today

• I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Time
  • Money
  • Giving

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Opportunities

• Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Up
  • Men
  • Mind

• I've taken thousands of shots in the corner. It's all mental. That's all it comes down to, is to be ready, wait for your opportunity, and execute.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • Opportunity
  • Taken

• You're so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It's like, 'You really think you know me? I don't know me! How do you know I'm not different around someone else?

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• If we want to end a culture rampant with harassment, we must listen to the adult women who are speaking out courageously. We must also make room for girls to speak: If we listened, we'd find that many middle schoolers are trying to tell us, 'Me too.'

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Culture

• Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Reality