C. S. Lewis Quotes
if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
Quotes to Explore
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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As a mom of three young kids, it's difficult to reserve a big chunk of time for shopping, so I try to get my gifts little by little throughout the year. I think this is especially helpful for those of us who are budget conscious.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.
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My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.
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I will always enjoy it, that I was one day the Number One, even, like, when I look back in five years.
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Every day we're given opportunities, some of us see them and some are too busy to notice.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.
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if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
