A Quote by C. S. Lewis
There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.
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When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise...it will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.
You can't lie down when people come on to use you, you have to stand up for your rights too.
I remember someone said to me, "Never stand up when you can sit down, never sit down when you can lie down, never lie down when you can be asleep." Those are bits of advice that I haven't taken, really. I've done the opposite of them, but they have stayed with me.
With some of the samples that I chose to use, tracking down the person that owns the publishing has become a task.
And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don’t really mean what I’m saying." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.
Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.
If you lie down and let somebody kick you, you're never going to get nowhere. You have to stand up.
It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.
Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.
Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.
My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.
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Either you can lie down or you can stand up and say, 'I'm going to be a man about it, go out and deal with the pain and help my team win.'
We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds.
The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind!
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