C. S. Lewis Quotes

Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

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• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Done
  • Think
  • Night

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Reality
  • Entertainment

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • American
  • Stop

• I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Life
  • Character
  • Death

• I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Football
  • Hair
  • Street

• Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • Education
  • Support

• What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Money
  • Dress

• I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Like
  • Fact
  • Glass

• Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Life
  • Power
  • Creativity

• As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Think
  • Song
  • Inside

• Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Death
  • Day

• I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Up
  • Best
  • Artist

• Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fear
  • Use
  • Cowardice

• To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Military
  • Danger

• If I've helped people enjoy the telecast, that's fine. That's my purpose.

  

  Keith Jackson
  • People
  • Purpose

• A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Evil
  • Christian
  • Enemy

• Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they're going to tell you I've been DJ Khaled my whole life.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • People
  • Life
  • Career

• True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Bad

• Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Purpose
  • Christian