Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

Lois Wyse

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

Lauren Willig

Tal vez las familias no siempre rechazan. Tal vez al menos a veces abren los brazos para acoger. Tal vez a veces se puede confiar en el amor.

Mary Balogh

Perhaps today was all that mattered. Perhaps today was all anyone could expect. Perhaps tomorrow was always an illusion that never came.

Mary Balogh

La vida nos es insoportable a todos a veces —dijo ella—. No creo que haya nadie lo bastante afortunado como para escapar de toda la oscuridad que ofrece.

Mary Balogh

What it must feel like to lie back with cut wrists in a warm bath, a voluptuous dwindling feeling.

Michael Cisco

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

Margaret Drabble

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

Martin Delany

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

Marilyn French

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Martha Gellhorn

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

Martha Gellhorn

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

Mark Helprin

The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual.

Mark Helprin

I've just always been fascinated by what our belief can do, and what happens when we misuse that.

M. K. Hobson

To say I had some pent-up anger would be like saying Britney Spears had minor impulse-control issues.

Molly Harper

Who ask don't get who don't ask don't want who don't want don't get who don't get don't care

Merle Hodge

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.

Mark Helprin

I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice.

Megan McCafferty

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

Richard Powers

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Richard Powers

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

Richard Powers