C. S. Lewis Quotes

He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.

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• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Stop
  • Building
  • Closing

• I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • World
  • War

• Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • High
  • Taken
  • Cancer

• I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Think
  • Day
  • Movies

• I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Money
  • Color
  • Blue

• I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Me
  • Down
  • Gym

• A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Hope
  • Team
  • Fire

• The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Today
  • Control
  • Process

• I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sleep

• The Trump Organization is paid millions of dollars by these developers for the privilege of putting the Trump name on those towers.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Trump
  • Organization
  • Name

• It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Done
  • Sacrifice

• On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Time
  • Country
  • Rock

• It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Work
  • Night
  • Man

• Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Up
  • Children
  • Run

• Make portraits of people in familiar and typical positions, above all give their faces the same choice of expression one gives their bodies. Thus if laughter is typical for a person, make him laugh – there are, naturally, feelings that one cannot render…

  

  Edgar Degas
  • People
  • Laughter

• For all their incoherence and senseless rage, their message is attractive to those layers of the population who yearn for some order in their lives. If the fanatics promise to feed them and educate their children they are prepared to forgo the delights of CNN and BBC World.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Children
  • Promise

• This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Fun
  • Death
  • Joy

• An attorney can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Lies

• There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value - sorry for the pun - we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • People
  • Important
  • True

• I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts.

  

  Andrew Thomas
  • Law

• I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Way
  • Always
  • Born

• I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Simple
  • I Can
  • Simple Things

• He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.

  

  C. S. Lewis