C. S. Lewis Quotes

Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.'

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• Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Action

• Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Youth
  • To Love

• My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • See
  • Throw

• Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Different
  • Same

• Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Consciousness
  • Deny

• Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Generation
  • Own

• I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Up
  • Color
  • Texas

• If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Radio

• My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Life
  • Father
  • Man

• I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Smoking
  • Thank You

• There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Family
  • She

• I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Experience
  • Without
  • Makes

• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Free
  • Rest

• Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Men
  • Women
  • Courage

• I have put absolutely everything into my album. I feel like it's been such a long journey to get here. It is like giving birth to my first child, and I want to make sure I did everything right.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Child

• From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

  

  Paul Tsongas
  • Women
  • True
  • Free

• I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.

  

  Kent Haruf
  • Life
  • Long
  • Snow

• I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• I can go out and chill with my friends, go out to dinner, and I won't get hounded like, I'm sure, Paul McCartney or somebody like that.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • Friends
  • Chill

• As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Christian

• Christ, who said to the disciples, 'You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends, 'You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.'

  

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