Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

C. S. Lewis

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

C. S. Lewis

We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

C. S. Lewis

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

C. S. Lewis

Why should your heart not dance?

C. S. Lewis

My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.

C. S. Lewis

All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem to him in comparison but as the half nauseous attractions of a raddled harlot would seem to a man who hears that his true beloved whom he has loved all his life and whom he had believed to be dead is alive and even now at his door.

C. S. Lewis

Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it would be impious to call ourselves 'miserable.' On the contrary, Man is a creature whom the Angels-were they capable of envy-would envy. Let us lift up our hearts!

C. S. Lewis

but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

C. S. Lewis

No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

Cecelia Ahern

Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.

Cecelia Ahern

Alex: Rosie, I wanted you to be the first person to no that I’ve decided to become a heart surgeon! Rosie: Cool, does it pay well? Alex: Rosie, it’s not about the money. Rosie: Where I come from, it’s all about the money. Probably because I don’t have any.

Cecelia Ahern

Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned.

Cecelia Ahern

Your heart can break at any age.

Cecelia Ahern

Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.

Cecelia Ahern

That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.

Carl Sagan

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.

Carl Sagan

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

Carl Sagan

We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.

Carl Sagan

One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.

Carl Sagan

At a few hundred kilometers altitude, the Earth fills half your sky, and the band of blue that stretches from Mindanao to Bombay, which your eye encompasses in a single glance, can break your heart with its beauty. Home you think. Home. This is my world. This is where I come from. Everyone I know, everyone I ever heard of, grew up down there, under that relentless and exquisite blue.

Carl Sagan

To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind.

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.

James Blake

My year would have got worse because I would have had a heart attack,

John Donne

My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My peace is gone, my heart is heavy.

Tyrus Thomas

My mindset is to take my opponent's heart and take his soul.

Tanith Lee

Locality is, in my case, unimportant. My mind and heart go where they wish.

Living in Cincinnati, there wasn't any place I could go where people didn't know me, or think they knew me. It made my heart hurt. I couldn't repair the damage.

William Shakespeare

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

I wish people knew how much she put her whole heart into this.

I won't vote. There is no point any more. No party has the interests of the people at heart anymore.

Charles Jenkins

Most importantly, I am thankful to Prime Minister Koizumi, ... As I said openly during my court-martial, Prime Minister Koizumi will always remain in the heart and prayers of me and my family.