C. S. Lewis Quotes
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.C. S. Lewis
Quotes to Explore
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
Ovid -
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
Ian Hacking -
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams -
We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.
Oliver Tambo -
I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
Abigail Johnson
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I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.
Palaniappan Chidambaram -
I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
Maggie Smith -
President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
Samantha Power -
We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
Larry J. Sabato -
With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
Tara Brach -
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
Patricia Cornwell -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
Maeve Binchy -
I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
Sam Shepard -
I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
Edgar Winter
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Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
Ja Rule -
I believe you should pray as hard on those up days as you do on the down days.
Cathy Hughes -
There's a meaning behind blank pages, too.
Beth Revis -
How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are married, just for the pleasure of seeing you rise to the occasion?
Elizabeth Marie Pope -
I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
Eddie Huang -
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
C. S. Lewis