C. S. Lewis Quotes

If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

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• Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

  

  Major Owens
  • Help
  • Technology
  • Tools

• Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Different
  • Today
  • Intelligence

• I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Poetry

• Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Reality

• I used to read a lot of fashion magazines: my favourite was 'Nylon.' I used to cut out all the pictures from magazines, and I had this book where I would keep all of the stuff that inspired me.

  

  Yuna
  • Book
  • Inspired
  • Keep

• The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Think
  • Sick

• Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Quality
  • Democracy
  • Achievement

• I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Dog
  • Named

• I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.

  

  Jack Palance
  • Old
  • Now
  • Three

• The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • War
  • Best
  • Communication

• At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Worry

• Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Animals

• She had a need to feel the thunder,To chase the lightning from the sky,To watch a storm with all its wonderWritten in her lover's eyes.She had to ride the heat of passionLike a comet burning bright,Rushing headlong in the windNow where only dreams have been,Burning both ends of the night.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Passion

• Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • May
  • High
  • Beautiful

• So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• I think it was a generous thought, and one that fow'd from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• I was born in Swindon... a place that always looked west. I found that wherever I go I love to have a room with a view of the western sky. My late brother and I, when we were small, had a room at the back of the house that overlooked the sunset; and both for he and I it was kind of magical.

  

  Justin Hayward The Moody Blues
  • House
  • Small
  • Brother

• Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

  

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• Quality for me is key, and this stands true in every facet of my business from real estate, hotels, and fashion.

  

  Ivanka Trump
  • Business
  • Quality
  • Facets

• You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Live
  • Experience

• If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

  

  C. S. Lewis