C. S. Lewis Quotes

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

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• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Wall

• People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Dance

• My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Think
  • You
  • Stop

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Weak
  • Once
  • Weary

• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Done
  • America

• I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Never
  • Laws
  • Take

• Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Like
  • Choice

• If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Song
  • Image
  • Mental

• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Lost

• I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Community
  • Health

• The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Kind
  • Enjoy
  • Suits

• Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Love
  • Today

• I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Ideas
  • More

• There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Man
  • More

• We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Know
  • Deep
  • Scars

• You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • Bad
  • Dog
  • Mood

• I lead verbally, not by example.

  

  Daryl Morey
  • Example

• Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?

  

  David Winnick
  • Persons
  • Ministers
  • Department

• I am not a collector of deserts!

  

  Benito Mussolini

• It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life