C. S. Lewis Quotes

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

C. S. Lewis

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• This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Live
  • Man
  • Listen

• The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Live
  • Family
  • Worst

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Real
  • Business

• I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Live
  • Friends

• I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Long
  • Experience

• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • Live
  • Freedom

• That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Society

• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Fish

• A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Man

• Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'

  

  Gary Calamar
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Love
  • True
  • Dream

• I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Live

• As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • Teenager
  • Tennis

• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Courage

• My approach to working in movies is to empower the director to have power over me and to really support his vision because he's the guy, at the end of the day, who's going to put it all together.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Power
  • Together
  • Guy

• The three adults in the New Jersey case may all be excellent parents individually, but they should not have tried to create a family together, surely they knew at the outset that their ‘family’ had unequal support for one of the three adults and was inherently unstable as a result. Possibly their enthusiasm for raising a child caused them to overlook this fact, but it could not be overlooked for 18 years.

  

  Amy Ridenour
  • Family
  • Child
  • Create

• The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Live
  • True