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Other People Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of…
- Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian,…
- The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us
- We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
- Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what…
- There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
- The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say…
- The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if…
- He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly…
- I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we…
- The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing…
- A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only…
- Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier…
- 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…
- You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.
- An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but…
More Other People Quotes
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some… — Arthur Ashe
- Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson
- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
- That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it… — Sebastian Bach
- People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. — Russell Baker
- If you want to control other people, first control yourself. — Abu Bakr
- In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people… — Amy Adams
- People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters… — James A. Baldwin
- I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and… — Christian Bale
- I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's… — Christian Bale