C. S. Lewis Quotes

‘Try now to answer my third riddle. By what rule to you tell a copy from an original?’

C. S. Lewis

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• I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Christian

• I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Believe
  • Women

• My coach keeps telling me to say I'm not going to retire. I should just go through the motions and see what I feel every year and see if I really want to do it, but personally, I want to do it, but my coach says just take your time, don't rush.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Time
  • Want
  • Me

• We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Trying
  • Thought
  • Accept

• There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Racism

• It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things like: 'Kane, Prom?' We have a fun, young team, and girls are asking you to the prom and giving you their numbers.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Fun
  • Giving
  • Funny

• The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • Player
  • Better

• I've worked in public education for 30 years - as a teacher, a lawyer and union leader. I've visited hundreds of schools and districts. I've seen leaders from the classroom to the national stage who have been willing to set aside their differences and do the hard work that's necessary to create real, enduring change.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Real
  • Education

• I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Career

• One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Singing
  • Mistakes
  • Gifts

• President Erdogan has been my personal friend for a long time.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Time
  • Long
  • Friend

• 'I cannot define failure because I don't believe in failure. There is no failure in my book. All I see is success, directed by the Spirit of God.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Believe
  • Book

• Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • High
  • Knowledge
  • Improvement

• A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Life
  • Great
  • True

• If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.. .I see everything that way, the surface of things, a kind of mental Braille. I just pass my hands over the surface of things. 1973

  

  Andy Warhol

• Japanese people cut their energy use by 25 percent immediately after Fukushima. They showed there was huge opportunity there. And instead, the government simply wants to get those plants up and running again.

  

  David Suzuki
  • People
  • Up
  • Opportunity

• Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Help

• I'm for prayer in schools.

  

  Charles Evers
  • Prayer

• Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Long
  • Book

• An actor should be judged by his performance only.

  

  James Dean

• I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

  

  James D'arcy
  • People
  • Believe
  • Die

• Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

  

  William Dunbar
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Habit

• ‘Try now to answer my third riddle. By what rule to you tell a copy from an original?’

  

  C. S. Lewis