C. S. Lewis Quotes

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

Quotes to Explore
-
The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
-
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
-
Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
-
I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
-
It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
-
I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
-
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
-
The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
-
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
-
I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
-
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
-
I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
-
If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
-
Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
-
If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
-
I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
-
People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
-
I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
-
Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.
-
Is our national goal to place as many people on welfare, food stamp support, as we can possibly put on that program? Is that our goal? Is that a moral vision for the United States of America, just to see how many people we can place in a situation where they're dependent on the federal government for their food?
-
So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.
-
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.
-
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.