C. S. Lewis Quotes

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

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• I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Gratitude

• PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Bad
  • Reviews
  • Turkey

• I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Fired

• For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Art
  • Hope
  • Lost

• I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • House
  • Couple
  • Break

• And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Character
  • Study

• I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Trying
  • Environment

• I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Life
  • Real
  • Wish

• I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• My kids know the importance of being active – and that's why teaming up with the USTA was such an organic fit for me. They are making strives to get families outside – and using tennis as a way to get kids to stay active.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Families

• The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Russia

• I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Different
  • Control

• When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Risk
  • Thought
  • Season

• When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Best
  • Competition
  • Equal

• I'm comfortable with my body but I don't like my bum - I think it's too big.

  

  Jennifer Ellison

• The contrast, between the two parties is now so strong that I think senator [Bernie ]Sanders has summed it up himself several times. He has said on her worst day, whatever that means, Hillary Clinton is infinitely better than any Republican.

  

  Joe Conason
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Fight

• The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Family
  • She
  • Job

• Bob: about Bing Crosby He's up in Nevada looking over Boulder Dam - his piggy bank is filled. He's so loaded, you know, he uses Howard Hughes for a bell boy.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Up
  • Boy

• I am a very big admirer of Hillary's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.

  

  Harriet Harman

• It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

  

  C. S. Lewis