Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

C. S. Lewis

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

C. S. Lewis

If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'

C. S. Lewis

In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

C. S. Lewis

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

C. S. Lewis

Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.

C. S. Lewis

The absent are easily refuted.

C. S. Lewis

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

C. S. Lewis

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Felicia Stockford

I don't know what he hopes to accomplish. It's just a bullying process, and I just refuse to be bullied.

Stephen Hegarty

For years now, we have taken a pretty hard line on bullying because it is a serious problem.

Michael Hanson

Bullying takes so many different forms that, frankly, it's hard to recognize all the time. But it is very important for us to deal with this.

Sue Tucker

Bullying is never about you. You have the right to explore who you are.

Joseph Wright

Bullying is a public health problem (tied to) the larger issue of youth violence in this country.

Jerry Misik

Bullying exists everywhere in the world to some degree or another.

Hu Jintao

(China) opposes the strong lording it over the weak and the big bullying the small and has long pledged not to seek hegemony, not to join any military bloc, and not to pursue its own spheres of influence,

Lord Shaftesbury

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Bill Hicks

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Johnny Pesky

He was a very unpretentious guy, and there was nothing conceited about him at all. He had a great body, and was good-looking with curly hair. He was a great guy to be around.

Ayn Rand

Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.

Ben Jonson

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.

Ben Jonson

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

Henry Ward Beecher

The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all

Alexander Hamilton

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

A. J. McLean

I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.