C. S. Lewis Quotes

The very man who has argued you down will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.

C. S. Lewis

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• Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Matter

• Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Interesting
  • Grow
  • Him

• ArcGIS is an integrated Web GIS that is supported by services. These are abstracted in a geoinformation model that's managed by the portal, and then accessible by a number of apps, which are the growing part of this system.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Growing
  • Model
  • System

• Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Child
  • Race
  • Passionate

• I used to have to beg and borrow £25 to hire some French windows. I started producing in 1967, and I was in debt until 1981. Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Good
  • Think
  • Discipline

• When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Things
  • Short
  • University

• Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Politics
  • Hell
  • Vote

• One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Truth
  • America

• Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Always
  • Name
  • Dead

• I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Architecture

• Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • Never
  • Assumptions

• There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Music
  • Nice

• Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

  

  Larry David
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Scene

• It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • World
  • Great
  • Hope

• People don't get married to get divorced. Maybe people weren't meant to be together forever.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • People
  • Together
  • Forever

• My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

  

  Debra Wilson
  • Music
  • School
  • Sister

• New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.

  

  Diplo
  • Music
  • City
  • Dance

• I like being around people.

  

  LeBron James
  • People

• After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.

  

  Nguyen Cao Ky
  • Twin

• No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • People
  • Why
  • Parents

• God is and all is well.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • God

• The very man who has argued you down will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.

  

  C. S. Lewis