C. S. Lewis Quotes
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?C. S. Lewis
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
Karen Gillan -
I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
Van Morrison
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
Dan Rather -
I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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Nobody in my family before me ever had anything.
Fat Joe -
I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
T. C. Boyle -
I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.
Victor LaValle
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I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.
Gary Locke -
If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
Nathan Myhrvold -
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
W. Clement Stone -
I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise.
Vin Scully -
Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.
J. L. Austin -
My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.
L. Neil Smith
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The most important thing is family.
Walt Disney -
At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.
Barton Gellman -
I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.
David Friedman -
The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.
Marianne Williamson -
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.
Edward Lawrie Tatum -
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
C. S. Lewis