C. S. Lewis Quotes

There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

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• I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Enjoy
  • Holiday
  • Shopping

• What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Life
  • Art
  • Subversive

• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Stubborn

• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Me
  • Know
  • Learn

• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • People
  • Small
  • Wonder

• Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Hate
  • Deserved
  • Paul McCartney

• And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Earth
  • Color
  • Most

• I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Dad
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Past
  • Ride
  • Smell

• You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Stop
  • Problem
  • Succeed

• I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Believe
  • Heaven
  • Hell

• If I had any humility I would be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Would

• He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

  

  Sallust
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Work
  • Love
  • Day

• You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • May
  • Lose
  • Loss

• Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Words
  • Funny
  • Friend

• Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Job
  • Kind
  • Child

• People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • People
  • Kind
  • Car

• How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Live
  • Desert
  • Within

• Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity call upon us to advance. The rest that awaits us invites us forward. We do not pine for our rest before God wills it. We long for no inglorious rest. We are thankful rather for the invaluable training of difficulty, the loving discipline of danger and strife. Yet in the midst of it all the prospect of rest invites us heavenward. Through all, and above all, God cries, "Go forward!" "Come up higher!

  

  William James
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Training

• When things are good, you should be thanking God. I don't do enough of that. But if you get things, you should thank Him, not just take, take, take. He really listens.

  

  George Michael Ward Jr.
  • God
  • Things
  • Take

• There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Things
  • Expenditures
  • Excluded