C. S. Lewis Quotes

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

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• It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Worry

• I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Winter
  • Kitchen
  • Waves

• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Small
  • Listening
  • Theatre

• Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Fall
  • Balance
  • Yourself

• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sacrifice

• I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Talent

• I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • World
  • Hate
  • Enjoy

• Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Why
  • Control
  • Question

• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Live
  • Alone
  • Beauty

• The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Happiness
  • Find
  • Secret

• I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • God
  • She
  • Woman

• Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • High
  • You
  • Expectations

• Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Good
  • Why
  • Without

• Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Men
  • Women
  • Morning

• I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make discoveries that would be made by others a short time later seems futile to me.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Time
  • Work
  • Interesting

• On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Man
  • More
  • Touch

• Mr. LaLanne said he performed his exercises until he experienced 'muscle fatigue,' lifting weights until it was impossible for him to continue. It produced results and, as he put it, 'the ego in me' made the effort worthwhile.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Effort
  • Ego
  • Lifting

• I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.

  

  Coco Lee
  • People

• Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • People
  • Black
  • Past

• Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we aren't perfect.

  

  Fred Rogers
  • Perfect

• There needs to be a better assessment of what the vulnerabilities are and what constitutes There needs to be a better assessment of what the vulnerabilities are and what constitutes vulnerability.

  

  William Ramsay
  • Vulnerability
  • Assessment

• I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Accept
  • Infinity

• When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

  

  C. S. Lewis