C. S. Lewis Quotes

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

C. S. Lewis

• Fear
• Pain
• Evil
• Journey
• Mad
• Brave
• Guilty

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Unique
  • Athlete

• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• 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 doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Married

• In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dumb
  • Get

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Able
  • Instincts
  • Repression

• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Look

• I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Bond

• The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Same
  • Morals

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.

  

  Victoria Toensing
  • Evidence
  • Perjury
  • Corroborating

• When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Police

• With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • People
  • Respect
  • Motorcycle

• I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'

  

  Gary Jennings
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

  

  Anne Heche
  • Believe
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Charity

• Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.

  

  J. A. Spender
  • God
  • Fear
  • Fear God

• Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out - a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your pain schedule. Endless categories. First, physical causes - like arthritis, gallstones, menstrual cramps. New category, injured vanity, betrayal, swindle, injustice. But the hardest items of all have to do with love. The question then is: So why does everybody persist? If love cuts them up so much.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Long
  • Pain
  • Cutting

• You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Evil