C. S. Lewis Quotes

Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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• Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
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• Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.

  

  Kate Brown
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  • Quiet
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• I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • God
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• I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
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  • Children

• What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

  

  Zendaya
  • Done
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• 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
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• I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Laugh
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• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
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  • Child

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
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• The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

  

  Tahar Rahim
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  • Cold
  • Mud

• Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Always
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• I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Like
  • Secret
  • Wrong

• Whether you're black or white, you're a human - and that's what matters.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Black

• My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Time
  • Parents
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• They did some things early on in there that threw us some curve balls. On defense, they did a real good coaching job on that part. We had to kind of struggle to get things going again, but we did control the ball, which is a big deal.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Real
  • Job

• I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

  

  Gene Cernan
  • World
  • America
  • Knowledge

• We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.

  

  H. Bentley Glass
  • Great
  • Science
  • Mountain

• Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Nice