C. S. Lewis Quotes

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Fight
  • Against

• I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Truth

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Streets

• I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Up
  • Funny
  • English

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

  

  Xenophon
  • Government
  • Laws
  • Wherever

• I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Think
  • Better

• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • School
  • Choices

• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Wife

• I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Today
  • Reading
  • Brown

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Long
  • Guy

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Most
  • Cells
  • DNA

• If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Laws
  • Open
  • Visa

• I wake up every morning at, like, seven or eight because I think that there's a bad story about me, and I have to check. My worst fear is waking up and finding something bad about me on the Internet.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Fear

• Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Connection
  • Search

• Andre Agassi, in his account of becoming an embittered prodigy, seems never to have liked tennis much, except as a vehicle for achievement. The kids who do like life inside the lines can find the flow within that green-and-white geometry.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Green

• The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Light
  • Evil

• No matter what your career aspirations are, you should begin by thinking carefully about why you are engaging in any activity and what you can expect to get out of it.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Career

• Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Why
  • Evil