C. S. Lewis Quotes

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

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• When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • College

• A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Person

• It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Embrace

• Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Acting

• Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Victory
  • Achievement

• After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Politics

• If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sports

• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Done
  • Stop

• Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rock

• We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Life
  • Money
  • Home

• He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • Never
  • Intellectual

• I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Life
  • Television
  • Personal

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

  

  Cliff Robertson
  • Life

• Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Just

• Often during rehearsals, I catch myself thinking, 'God, this is hard. Why am I always choosing such difficult plays to put on?'

  

  Marianne Elliott
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Why

• The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Dark
  • Sun
  • Smoking

• What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Soul