C. S. Lewis Quotes

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved.
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What can I say about 'The Lost Boys'? Oh my God: I love it; I hate it; I'm scared of it. I had a massive crush on them all when I was young. And I wanted to be a vampire. It's so stylized; it's the type of film I grew up on. To me, it's always at the top.
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It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.
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A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.
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The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis