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?

Bertrand Russel

Our mental make-up is suited to a life of very severe physical labor

Barry McGuigan

Work hard, think fast and you'll last.

Bill Cowher

I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.

Big Sean

Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years.

Carrie Underwood

I've learned it's really important to work hard and keep your family and friends close. You've got to let them know how much you appreciate them for sticking by you.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

Bill Burr

Michael Price is the showrunner so nobody works harder than him.

Two Chainz

People know I work hard.

Charles Darwin

After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable: from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.‎

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.