Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

The Onion Girl

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight

The Other Boleyn Girl

The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.

The Other Boleyn Girl

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

Water for Elephants

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

Water for Elephants

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

Antony Beevor

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

Julie Burchill

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Margaret Drabble

It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive.

Alex Berenson

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

Cynthia Ozick

If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess.

Douglas Lain

What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.

Antony Beevor

One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.

Gail Sheehy

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Ashwin Sanghi

There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.

Stanley Schmidt

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

William Irwin Thompson

I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

William Weld

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

Howard Rheingold

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

Ridley Pearson

I think God gave every one of us a cell phone, we just dropped it.

Sylvia Browne

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

E. W. Howe