C. S. Lewis Quotes
Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
Quotes to Explore
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.
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I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
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I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
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One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.
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Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
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God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.
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Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
