C. S. Lewis Quotes
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
-
Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
-
I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
-
A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
-
A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
-
After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
-
I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
-
I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
-
I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
-
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
-
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
-
I believe we're the party of small business.
-
If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
-
I always had confidence in my game.
-
Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
-
Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
-
I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.
-
Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
-
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
-
There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
-
Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
-
If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.
-
There's a pure and simple business case for diversity: Companies that are more diverse are more successful.
-
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
