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Talk Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- 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…
- If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
- When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that…
- Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'
- People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on…
- Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of…
- Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to…
- I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.
- Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get…
- What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a…
- It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you…
- This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't…
- The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.
- We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized…
- You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about…
- When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of…
- If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this…
- Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned…
- God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.…
- 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…
- It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that…
- Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.
- Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But…
- No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering…
More Talk 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
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough
- If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. — Jane Austen
- When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and… — Lauren Bacall
- I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act. — Kevin Bacon
- I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor,… — Kevin Bacon
- If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. — Robert Baden-Powell
- To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. — Pearl Bailey
- That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit… — Amy Adams
- You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk… — Abu Bakr
- Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk… — Christian Bale
- I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and… — Tyra Banks