Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

C. S. Lewis

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

C. S. Lewis

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

C. S. Lewis

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Alan Sugar

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Alan Kay

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Charlotte Bronte

Conventionality is not morality.

Charlie Chaplin

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

Charles de Gaulle

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Carol Leifer

I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain.

Carlos Castaneda

"Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings." Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness. "This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom."

Carlos Castaneda

... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

C. S. Lewis

Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?

C. S. Lewis

Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.

Nick Brown

When you're young, you recover fast. I can take a lot of pain.

Agnes Repplier

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

Agnes Repplier

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

Charlotte Bronte

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers

Dianne Feinstein

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

David Mitchell

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Deepak Chopra

Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink.

Ram Dass

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

Alexander Woollcott

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

Clive Barker

Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now.

Howard Carter

Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.

Jerry Spinelli

His smile was so wide he’d have had to break it into sections to fit it through a doorway