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.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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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.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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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?
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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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.
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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.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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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.
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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.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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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.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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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.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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One should tell oneself how fruitful misunderstandings are. One shouldn’t despise them. One of the wisest people was a collector of misunderstandings.
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Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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This is why I love SF. I love to read it; I love to write it. The SF writer sees not just possibilities but wild possibilities. It's not just 'What if...' It's 'My God; what if...' In frenzy and hysteria.
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To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She could do so because her joy was rooted in the certitude of the ultimate goodness of God's loving plan for her. And though her faith in this truth did not touch her soul with consolation, she ventured to meet the challenges of life with a smile. Her one lever was her blind trust in God.
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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.
