C. S. Lewis Quotes

I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

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• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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• I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

  

  Larry Wall
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• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
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• No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
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• I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
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• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
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• I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • People
  • Done
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• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
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• If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.

  

  Gabe Newell
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• I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
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• True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Character
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• The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • History
  • Today
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• We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

  

  Gary Player
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• Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • People
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• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

  Victor Koo
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• I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
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• If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.

  

  Richard Rainwater
  • Beautiful
  • Place
  • Happen

• I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
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• I've been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people's perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that's not what I am.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.

  

  Jeremy Stoppelman

• When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Destiny
  • Leave

• I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
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