C. S. Lewis Quotes

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic - to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

C. S. Lewis

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• Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Green
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Respect
  • Friend
  • Sex

• Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Reality
  • Wish

• I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Want
  • Community
  • City

• When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • She
  • Book
  • Reality

• The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Never
  • Constitution

• I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Thankful

• Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Beautiful
  • Night
  • You

• I was definitely a Daddy's boy.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Boy
  • Definitely
  • Daddy

• Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Dark
  • Child
  • Celebrity

• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Me
  • Reasons
  • Ordinary

• I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I am one of the people who don't really agree with that lifestyle. I wasn't brought up that way; it wasn't how I was raised, but I do have a lot of friends and a lot of people that I love dearly who are gay and homosexual, and they're such sweet, nice people.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Country
  • American
  • Society

• When you're drunk, you always think you're not. If you even drink at all don't get behind the wheel.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Think
  • Drink
  • Drunk

• Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Politics
  • Safety
  • Aim

• Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Exist
  • Labour
  • Meritorious

• To me, the music industry doesn't exist, it's like the devil, it doesn't exist if you don't believe in it.

  

  Princess Nokia
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Exist

• If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic - to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Exist
  • Aim
  • Aware