C. S. Lewis Quotes

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

C. S. Lewis

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• You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I love basketball.

  

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• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

  

  Samantha Power
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• Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiskey in there, too. After the show, I hang out at merch meeting people and signing things. After that, I usually try to see friends in whatever city we're in, or if I'm super beat, listen to a podcast and pass out.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Up
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• At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Like
  • Seriously

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Way
  • Learned
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• I only seem to date younger women.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Women
  • Only
  • Date

• Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Real
  • Song
  • Singing

• For the Amex, which has been casting around for a role for itself, microcaps fill a crucial void - a 'niche' that Amex officials feel has been neglected.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Feel
  • Fill
  • Niche

• But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Knowledge
  • Change

• I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Smell
  • Bubble

• It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Lost

• The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Art
  • War
  • Simple

• There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter.

  

  Christopher Markus
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• Eight years ago, when the life of this Republic seemed frozen by a fatalistic terror, we proved that this is not true. We were in the midst of shock - but we acted. We acted quickly, boldly, decisively.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Life
  • True
  • Frozen

• Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Purpose
  • Positive
  • Hurt

• I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.

  

  Jane Green
  • People
  • Work
  • House

• Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Kindness