A Quote by C. S. Lewis

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

C. S. Lewis

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Against Expect Get Go Grain Splinters Universe

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C. S. Lewis
British - Writer
November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.

Christian Louboutin

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

Augusten Burroughs

Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

bell hooks

Don't be afraid to go against the current, when they want to steal our hope, when they propose rotten values to us, values like food that has gone bad-and when food has gone bad it makes us sick, these values make us sick. We have to go against the current! And you, young people, be the first: Go against the grain and be proud of going against the grain. Go on, be brave and go against the current! And be proud of doing it!

Pope Francis

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

Savion Glover

I love playing different characters. I just do. I want to play even more quirky and interesting characters and just something that people wouldn't automatically think that I would be. I want to go against the grain a bit and I'm hoping people will be open-minded enough to cast me in stuff that's going against the grain.

Dave Bautista

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

Dejan Stojanovic

Me, I like to go against the grain.

R-Truth

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

Wyclef Jean

I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

Kevin Costner

I trust my gut instinct, and go against the grain and it works.

Chamillionaire

The largest opportunities are found in ideas that go against the grain.

Omar Hamoui

Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!

Deena Metzger

I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.

Victoria Chang

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

Donna Mills

I don't play by those rules; I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. There's something in me that has to go against the grain. You know, I don't like to be a dead fish, swimming with all the other dead fish, I like to go upstream sometimes, against the flow.

Ritchie Blackmore

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