Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

C. S. Lewis

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

C. S. Lewis

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

C. S. Lewis

God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.

C. S. Lewis

Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.

C. S. Lewis

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

Cecil Rhodes

Man begets, but land does not beget.

Cecil Rhodes

Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen

Cecelia Ahern

I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.

Carrie Coon

Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

Carrie Chapman Catt

it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' and that governments to be just should 'derive their consent from the governed.' The unanswerable logic of these two principles is responsible for the extension of suffrage to men and women the world over. In the United States, however, women are still taxed without 'representation' and still live under a government to which they have given no 'consent.

Carrie Fisher

What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.

Carl Rogers

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

Carl Rogers

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

Carl Sagan

Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

Carl Sagan

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

Carl Sagan

The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based.

Bill Burr

And Donald Trump? That man literally has people shouting the n word at his rallies and he doesn't address it, which is astounding to me. He's a terrible person.

Bill Bryson

Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing.

Bill Bryson

The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.

Bill Bryson

It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads with something foreign and uncomfortable. Very often it was actually their own hair made into a wig. People who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their hair look like a wig.

Bill Bryson

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

Bette Davis

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

Bette Davis

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

Bette Davis

I've always liked men better than women.

Bette Davis

I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.

Bernard Beckett

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. Its very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover Gods great plan.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

Benjamin Rush

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

Benjamin Rush

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

Ashton Kutcher

Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.

Ashton Kutcher

Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.