C. S. Lewis Quotes

Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.

C. S. Lewis

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• Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

  

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• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

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• Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

  

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• Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

  

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• My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

  

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• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

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• I am healthy and happy.

  

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• I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

  

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  • Think
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• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

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• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  

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• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

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• A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

  

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• Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.

  

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• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

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• The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.

  

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• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

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• Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?

  

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• Give. Giving affirms Christ's lordship. It dethrones me and exalts Him. It breaks the chains of mammon that would enslave me and transfers my center of gravity to Heaven.

  

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• In addition to actual dramatic training and experience, I'd want as much education as possible.

  

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• It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.

  

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  • Important
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• I think the past need not be the dead past. If we get it right, with new books, the past can be a beacon for the future.

  

  Peter Mayer
  • Future
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• Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Important
  • Free