C. S. Lewis Quotes
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.C. S. Lewis
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
Nathan Fillion -
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Malcolm Forbes -
In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
Harold Rosenberg -
I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
Patrick Murphy -
The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
Nancy Lopez
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
Walt Mossberg -
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
Patricia Ireland -
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
Ramakrishna -
My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
Taylor Swift -
I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
Dani Shapiro -
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
Yul Vazquez -
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
Victoria Justice -
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren Buffett -
We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
Gary L. Francione -
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
Octavia E. Butler
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
Ian Botham -
Whether defending our nation as a Black Hawk pilot abroad or serving our veterans and those in need at home, my life has been enriched by the opportunities I've had to serve my country and fellow citizens, both in and out of uniform.
Tammy Duckworth -
It used to be that you made an album and then you went on the road to promote that album, hoping for good record sales. Well, good record sales basically don't exist any more, and the emphasis has been more on the live show.
Alex Lifeson Rush -
When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
Harrison Ford -
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
C. S. Lewis