C. S. Lewis Quotes
we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.C. S. Lewis
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Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
Ralph Lauren -
Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
Adam D'Angelo -
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
Sadhu Vaswani -
To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
Bebe Moore Campbell -
I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
Uma Thurman -
Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
Nate Parker
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
Ted Danson -
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
Natalie Portman -
Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
Uday Kotak -
The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
Malcolm Wilson -
My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
Laura Benanti
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson -
An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
Maeve Binchy -
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
Tammy Baldwin -
If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.
Jackie Chan -
Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
Rachel Griffiths -
Fandom is amazing.
Caitriona Balfe
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As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.
Adam Cohen -
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.
Elizabeth Lesser -
If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.
Matthew Desmond -
Elected presidents are for countries.
William Hague -
we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.
C. S. Lewis