Midas Quote by C. S. Lewis Download Open image ““Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold.”” — C. S. Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Midas Money New-powers Rich
“There is power in his touch, power in the slightest look. He is a hard man who commands a billion-dollar enterprise, and right now… — J. Kenner Copy Share Image
“That was his poverty, that was his sole wealth. As if by writing zero, he was starting over but with a consciousness of his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch… — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
“He traced my lower lip. I braced myself for the pain that was sure to follow because he was like a sadistic King Midas,… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“It was a life that had left him rich in experience, but poor in goods of the world.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“some man of power must have existed, with gifts that seemed miraculous to his own times.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“If anything, the spirit that drove him now was fiercer, but there was no denying the diminishing powers of his body. He” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“It was the way things were going. People realizing how little time they had left to get rich before the planet melted.” — Phil Rickman Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away.… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I feel like Travis [Stevens] is just a Midas touch producer. Seemingly everything he touches turns to gold lately, so that was quite exciting… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
“This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey’s Paw version 2.0, or Richard Cory… — John L. Monk Copy Share Image
Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop a philosophy… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“There's an internal compass inside of me that laid still for so long, stuck behind its arc of glass, listless and without hope. But… — Raven Kennedy Copy Share Image
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch… — John Wolcot Copy Share Image