C. S. Lewis Quotes
You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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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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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.
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Aristotle was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato…. He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that Plato said, 'Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.'
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I expect to see the day when the Elders of Israel will protect and sustain civil and religious liberty and every Constitutional right bequeathed to us by our fathers, and spread these rights abroad in connection with the Gospel for the salvation of all nations. I shall see this whether I live or die.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.
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You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.
