C. S. Lewis Quotes
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
Quotes to Explore
-
What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
-
Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
-
I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
-
I love my wife, I love my kids.
-
I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
-
To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
-
I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
-
Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
-
England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
-
I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
-
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
-
We may define therapy as a search for value.
-
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
-
It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
-
Health care should be affordable for everyone.
-
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
-
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
-
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
-
Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.
-
WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.
-
Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.
-
I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently suggest or guide or inspire or contribute whatever I can to their effort.
-
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.
-
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
