#par

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#allowed #class #decide #every #few

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty. ↗

— John Lennon

#god #god almighty #i #loser #me

It was that chemistry. And was the fact that he was president part of that chemistry? I don't know. Maybe. Probably. But it was - I was there because there was chemistry. I wasn't there because, oh, this is the president. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#chemistry #fact #i #know #maybe

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#because #cannot #give #god #happiness

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#christian #eating #go #higher #his

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#day #each #endless #every #fact

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#before #began #done #got #had

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#actor #athlete #becoming #cameo #carl

I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#any #athlete #being #being prepared #coach

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#counterparts #elected #elected officials #fed #fed up