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Worse Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We…
- A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a…
- Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent.…
- I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse…
- When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go…
- The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up…
- When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting…
- Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the…
- You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut…
- Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
- There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's…
- I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse...…
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- I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually… — Adam Arkin
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life. — Kevin Bacon
- As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times.… — Kevin Bacon
- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
- The remedy is worse than the disease. — Francis Bacon
- Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little… — Russell Baker