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Their Own Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of…
- All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
- To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to…
- Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot…
- Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
- Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under…
- A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking…
- Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
- Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less…
- No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all…
- 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 people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot…
More Their Own Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet. — Sebastian Bach
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu