C. S. Lewis Quotes

‘Try now to answer my third riddle. By what rule to you tell a copy from an original?’

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• I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Christian

• I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Believe
  • Women

• My coach keeps telling me to say I'm not going to retire. I should just go through the motions and see what I feel every year and see if I really want to do it, but personally, I want to do it, but my coach says just take your time, don't rush.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Time
  • Want
  • Me

• We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Trying
  • Thought
  • Accept

• There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Racism

• It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things like: 'Kane, Prom?' We have a fun, young team, and girls are asking you to the prom and giving you their numbers.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Fun
  • Giving
  • Funny

• The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • Player
  • Better

• I've worked in public education for 30 years - as a teacher, a lawyer and union leader. I've visited hundreds of schools and districts. I've seen leaders from the classroom to the national stage who have been willing to set aside their differences and do the hard work that's necessary to create real, enduring change.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Real
  • Education

• I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Career

• One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Singing
  • Mistakes
  • Gifts

• President Erdogan has been my personal friend for a long time.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friend

• 'I cannot define failure because I don't believe in failure. There is no failure in my book. All I see is success, directed by the Spirit of God.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Believe
  • Book

• Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • High
  • Knowledge
  • Improvement

• A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Life
  • Great
  • True

• If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.. .I see everything that way, the surface of things, a kind of mental Braille. I just pass my hands over the surface of things. 1973

  

  Andy Warhol

• Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.

  

  David Suzuki
  • People
  • Up
  • Opportunity

• Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Help

• I'm for prayer in schools.

  

  Charles Evers
  • Prayer

• About a boy who had a beautiful heart, and how that boy could make plants grow and how he could make people say good things—even people who liked to say only bad things.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad Things

• Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper…there’s a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Intimacy

• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Business
  • American
  • Help

• I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

  

  Kevin Gates

• ‘Try now to answer my third riddle. By what rule to you tell a copy from an original?’

  

  C. S. Lewis