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Such Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
- When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
- 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…
- As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any…
- 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…
- Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is…
- Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A…
- In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where…
- We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand…
- In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church
- Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real…
- Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard)…
- What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes…
- The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a…
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and…
- Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous…
- Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a…
- Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it,…
- A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys…
- Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to…
- Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate them. Not one…
- Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level…
- 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…
- A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But…
More Such Quotes
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough