C. S. Lewis Quotes
Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.C. S. Lewis
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
Indra Nooyi -
The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
Patrick Warburton -
I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
E. L. Doctorow -
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson -
Time is the devourer of all things.
Ovid -
People trash talk me.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
Saint Basil -
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Van Morrison -
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
Tahl Raz -
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
Quincy Jones -
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
Joanne Rowling
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
Bat for Lashes -
It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
Finley Peter Dunne -
In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
Ted Cruz -
I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
Sally Phillips -
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
Victoria Justice
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The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.
Gavyn Davies -
You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.
Gavin Newsom -
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
Ernest Holmes -
I was actually sitting on stage at a press conference one day, and I totally lost touch with reality. I just thought to myself: 'Vin Diesel is sitting next to me, and Benicio Del Toro's on the other side. This is weird, man.'
Dave Bautista -
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
Dalai Lama -
Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
C. S. Lewis