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.

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  Ovid
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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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• Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

  Abigail Adams
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• 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
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• 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
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• People believe what they want to believe.

  

  Tab Hunter
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• I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

  

  Maggie Smith
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  • Believe
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• 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
  • Great
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• 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
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• 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
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• But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
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  • Want

• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
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  • Humanity
  • Nothing

• I want to just be what kids believe in.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
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  • Kids
  • Want

• I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
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• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
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• 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
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• A typical day in my writing life starts with looking at pictures of real estate online for at least 20 minutes. If I happen to be actually in the market for a house, I do this for 40 minutes. Then I walk my dog, come back home, and tell myself I can look at real estate for another five minutes.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Want
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• Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

  

  Wade Boggs
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  • Baseball

• In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

  

  Jan de Bont
  • People
  • Movie
  • Single

• The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Fall
  • Devil
  • Poor

• 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
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Wisdom