C. S. Lewis Quotes
I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.
