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?

Carl Sagan

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.

Randy Adams

I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw flames from the back of my truck,

Benjamin Disraeli

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Robert Lopez

My god, I wanted to go in there and smash that window and try and see if I could pull her out. But the flames were too high. It's gone.

Abdu'l Baha

Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

Archibald MacLeish

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

Debra Winger

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Adam Hamilton

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

Jerry Falwell

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

Gideon Gono

I found myself doing extraordinary things that arent in the textbooks. Then the IMF asked the U.S. to please print money. The whole world is now practicing what they have been saying I should not. I decided that God had been on my side and had come to vindicate me.

Gloria Steinem

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

Neal Shusterman

What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?

Thabo Mbeki

I am sure it is in the medical textbooks, there are many things that cause immune deficiency and you will find therefore in the South African HIV and AIDS programme, that it will say that part of what we have got to do is to make sure that our health infrastructure, our health system is able to deal adequately with all of the illnesses that are a consequence of AIDS.

Joshua Lederberg

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

L. Ron Hubbard

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.