C. S. Lewis Quotes

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

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• The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Different
  • True

• Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Death
  • Reputation

• Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • Through
  • Cloud

• I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Important
  • Support
  • Will

• My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Best
  • Imagination
  • Greatest

• Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it's what she fights for that is important. It's her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Important
  • She
  • Future

• Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Why
  • Experience

• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Travel
  • End

• Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Problem
  • Where
  • Risks

• Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Pretty
  • Performance
  • Room

• In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Death
  • Questions

• I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.

  

  Jackie Walorski
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Born

• When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Know
  • Desire

• In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Community
  • Security
  • Cost

• I grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market.

  

  Kariya Munda
  • Family
  • Grow
  • Market

• All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Alien

• Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Mom

• Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life

• But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Control
  • Like
  • Fine

• I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

  

  David Guterson
  • Up
  • Live
  • Book

• Growing up, I used to babysit, but, thinking back on what I was like at 15, this was probably a terrible idea.

  

  Corey Stoll
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Growing

• But in the end the truth prevails, if it be well set forth; and the schoolmen, groaning in their infinite labour, wearily write another prescription, admit another precedent, and make another pigeon-hole.

  

  Arthur Morrison
  • Truth
  • Set
  • Prevails

• In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

  

  C. S. Lewis