C. S. Lewis Quotes

Mr. Neo-Angular – I am doing my duty. My ethics are based on dogma, not on feeling. Vertue – I know that a rule is to be obeyed because it is a rule and not because it appeals to my feelings at the moment.

C. S. Lewis

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• The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Relationship
  • Best
  • Healthy

• If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Want
  • Name
  • Charity

• Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Manhood
  • Sensitivity

• If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Beautiful
  • Small
  • Unique

• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • People
  • Work
  • Name

• I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Devil
  • Afraid

• I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Always
  • Picture
  • Start

• Swimming is my passion and something that I love.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Swimming

• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Country
  • Small
  • Build

• We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • War
  • Day
  • Him

• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Government
  • Turn

• I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • God
  • True

• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
  • Mistake
  • Dawn

• You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Party
  • Trump

• I like to do Pilates.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Like
  • Pilates

• There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
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• Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Saying
  • Expert

• The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

  

  James Allen
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Power

• In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much 'if it happens, it happens.'

  

  Amanda Schull
  • School
  • High
  • Ethics

• I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you can't see beyond it.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Good
  • Work
  • Past

• Mr. Neo-Angular – I am doing my duty. My ethics are based on dogma, not on feeling. Vertue – I know that a rule is to be obeyed because it is a rule and not because it appeals to my feelings at the moment.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Feeling
  • Ethics