C. S. Lewis Quotes

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

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• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

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• Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

  

  Harold Pinter
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  • Status Quo

• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  

  Nancy Astor
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• Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Things
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• I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Religion
  • Recognition

• It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Time
  • Business
  • Running

• My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Country

• I think that our comfort is in our history.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • History
  • Think
  • Comfort

• It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
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• Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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  • Italian
  • Still

• I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Long
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  • Remember

• How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.

  

  W. H. Davies
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  • Security
  • Snow

• In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

  

  Yishan Wong
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  • Media
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• We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Made
  • Synch

• The poetical character... is not itself - it has no self - it is every thing and nothing - It has no character - it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it fair or foul, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated. - It has as much delight in conceiving an Iago as an Imogen. What shocks the virtuous philospher, delights the camelion poet.

  

  John Keats
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  • High
  • Light

• The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Successful
  • Research
  • Theory

• The whole debate on what food is best for us is complex, ongoing and often controlled by vested interests.

  

  Jasper Carrott
  • Food

• I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?

  

  Pam Muñoz Ryan
  • Children
  • Faith
  • Memories

• It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • True

• What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • God