C. S. Lewis Quotes

I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'

C. S. Lewis

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• The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • World
  • Language
  • Natural

• My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Mother
  • Environment
  • Unique

• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Nice

• The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • World
  • My Life

• We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Government
  • Independent
  • Problems

• I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Relationship
  • Judged

• I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Step
  • Slow
  • Steady

• I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Bad

• If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Love
  • Me
  • Wait

• With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • Period

• I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Interested

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Coach
  • Quarterback
  • Swagger

• People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Leader
  • Celebrity

• He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.

  

  Amanda Peet
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Remember

• Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Up
  • God
  • Thinking

• In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Life
  • Up
  • Small

• Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Feelings
  • Will
  • Poems

• I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Special