C. S. Lewis Quotes
When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
Quotes to Explore
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.
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Every law is an infraction of liberty.
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The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.
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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
