C. S. Lewis Quotes
The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose.
C. S. Lewis
Quotes to Explore
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
Usain Bolt
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
Ovid
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
Veerappa Moily
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
Gary Hamel
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
Felipe VI of Spain
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
Daniel Defoe
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
Taylor Momsen
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
Lady Gregory
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
Mandy Moore
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
Karl Pilkington
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
Tariq Ali
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
Barbara Mertz
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
Beck
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
Iris DeMent
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
Barney Ross
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
Natalia Makarova
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
Wayne Dyer
