C. S. Lewis Quotes

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Car

• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• The future is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Present
  • Like

• Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Government
  • Envy
  • Bond

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Know
  • Universe
  • Design

• A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Home
  • Want
  • Man

• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Character
  • America
  • Guy

• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Constitution
  • Most
  • Faults

• 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Partner

• I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Problems

• I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Age
  • Know
  • Understand

• I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Tennis
  • McDonald

• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Parent

• This Islam business kidnapped me.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Business
  • Me
  • Islam

• All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Looking
  • Big
  • Market

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Government
  • Design
  • Creation

• Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

  

  Euripides
  • Good
  • Love
  • Man

• I try not to be superstitious, but, you know, we never put any shoes on the table. That's totally against the law in our house. And I always salute when I see one magpie.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • House
  • Law
  • Shoes

• I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.

  

  Zelo
  • God
  • Greek

• I've never been on a fad diet.

  

  Denise Van Outen

• I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

  

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