C. S. Lewis Quotes

Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.

C. S. Lewis

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• If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
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  • Stop

• Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Real
  • Need
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• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
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• Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

  

  Barton Gellman
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  • Often
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• My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Sister

• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• I am healthy and happy.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Think
  • Forget
  • Try

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

  

  Ouida
  • Hand
  • Story
  • Run

• Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • People
  • Trust
  • Never

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
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• The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
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• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
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• I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Funny
  • Myself

• You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Great
  • God
  • Country

• God is pleased with no music from below so much as in the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows, of supported orphans, of rejoicing, and comforted, and thankful persons.

  

  Jeremy Taylor
  • Music
  • God
  • Thankful

• I'm not a big watcher of myself. You start looking at things you shouldn't be looking at that have nothing to do with anything of importance.

  

  Eric Dane

• A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Fool
  • Humor
  • Argument

• Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Important
  • Free