C. S. Lewis Quotes

Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.

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• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Perfect
  • Civilization
  • Rare

• We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Action
  • Technology

• I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Places

• I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Big
  • Splash

• There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Singing
  • Doing
  • Boring

• When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • See
  • Islamic

• If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • American
  • Culture
  • New

• I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Believe
  • Free

• When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by caste divisions, and mired in poverty; rather, what's envisioned is a vast, unified Hindu empire stretching from Kashmir to the Indian tip at Kanyakumari.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Country
  • Past
  • Poverty

• I have the strange ability to shut things out.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Things
  • Ability
  • Strange

• My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Life
  • Mistake
  • Doing

• A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Success
  • Struggle

• I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Fall

• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • House
  • Team
  • Best

• I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Me
  • Always
  • Potential

• I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.

  

  James Schuyler

• There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations….What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.

  

  Daniel O'Connell
  • Ignorance
  • Army

• The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."

  

  Vaginal Davis
  • Light
  • Advice
  • Given

• The Anglo-Saxon world saw India as an underdeveloped country. The land of snake charmers, the cows on the street, that "ex-colony-backward-nation" kind of viewpoint, very condescending. Europe on the other hand, saw India in a more romantic, mystical, spiritual way, as a place that's a fountain of wisdom.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • World
  • Country
  • Hand

• I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Chance
  • Luck
  • Best Laid Plans

• Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Perfect
  • Wisdom