C. S. Lewis Quotes
There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?
Quotes to Explore
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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Most people are nice and just want to have a chat.
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When a man becomes steadfast in his abstention from harming others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in his presence
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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I love to be outside.
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There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?
