C. S. Lewis Quotes

'And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.'

C. S. Lewis

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• It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Actor

• I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Will

• I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Real

• I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• God made them as stubble to our swords.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Made
  • Our

• I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Gone
  • Bands
  • Had

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Done
  • Question
  • Immigration

• With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • People
  • Music
  • Modeling

• For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Knowledge

• It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Great
  • Play

• It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Look
  • Choice

• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Own
  • Tragedy
  • September

• I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Never
  • Just
  • Been

• I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Couple
  • Hearts
  • Collection

• If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • You
  • Die
  • Find

• If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Night
  • Man
  • Stars

• The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.

  

  Matthew Continetti
  • Up

• One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

  

  Jean Tinguely
  • School
  • Art

• I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.

  

  Sarah Gadon
  • Career
  • Artist
  • Directors

• In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Children
  • School
  • Water

• Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Trying
  • Sweet

• 'And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Water
  • Sweet
  • Forest