C. S. Lewis Quotes

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

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• What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

  

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• The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.

  

  Mallory Jansen
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• After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

  

  Laura Osnes
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• The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
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• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
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• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
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• I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

  

  Candice Olson
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• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
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• I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

  

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• Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

  

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• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  

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• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  

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• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

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• But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

  

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• I am baffled by many Western politicians who continually blame low-cost imported goods for their own economic challenges.

  

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• In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

  

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• Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?

  

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• I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

  

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• Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

  

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