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Wells Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- No one can teach riding so well as a horse.
- Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
- Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt…
- To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
- Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who…
- We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to…
- 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…
- When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world
- Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work:…
- We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.
- All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks…
- Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what…
- What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as…
- 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…
- 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…
- The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded,…
- The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us…
- There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
- [God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society…
- We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin…
- The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and…
- If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is…
- At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize…
- A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand…
- Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts.
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- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong