Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Robert W. Service

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Sophocles

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Thomas Hobbes

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

Carl Lewis

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Jack Prelutsky

John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.

Noam Chomsky

Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.

The City of Devi

I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution.

Cold Days

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

Certain Girls

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

Children of God

Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.

In the City of Shy Hunters

Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.

The Chance

It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.

Chances

With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.

Commencement

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

In the Country of Men

An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.

The Curse of the Mistwraith

Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

Contact

There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.

Carnival: A Novel