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Best Else Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.
- He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
- There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
- Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward…
- God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly…
- Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else…
- All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find,…
- Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever…
- You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is…
- There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in…
- We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty…
- Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber…
- I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum…
- The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see…
- One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else…
- The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite,…
- Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid…
- You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut…
- An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical…
- I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else…
- If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do…
- I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel us into unity, by persecution even and hardship.…
- For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.
More Else Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel. — Mary Kay Ash
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else. — Mackenzie Astin
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood