C. S. Lewis Quotes
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.
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Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
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I try not to think about anyone's expectations but rather focus on always doing my personal best. Modeling was never a thought in my mind growing up, but my mom felt it was important for me to be open to business opportunities and expand my horizons.
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You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.
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The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.
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The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
