C. S. Lewis Quotes

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

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  Rachel Nichols
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• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
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• The future is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
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• Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

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• I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  

  G. W. Bailey
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• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
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  • Most
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• 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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• I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

  

  Barry Mann
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• I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

  

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• I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

  

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• I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

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• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  

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• This Islam business kidnapped me.

  

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• All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

  

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• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

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• America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.

  

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• If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

  

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• If Church history teaches us anything, it is that we cannot afford to be a vacillating Church. We minister to a people who are in great need of hearing truth, we dare not make any attempt to soft pedal that glorious truth.

  

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• My victory is your victory. My victory is the victory of a unified party, a party that wants to propose to the Quebec people a country that is free and a country that is independent.

  

  Pauline Marois
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• What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Mind
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• I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Praying