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Some Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in…
- 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…
- The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there…
- The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--
- Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
- Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such…
- The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.
- Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of…
- When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you…
- Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the…
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It…
- Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular…
- Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books…
- The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling…
- An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to…
- It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
- Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.
- A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
- Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.
- There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts…
- If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That…
- Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?
- It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
- The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.
- If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
More Some Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong