Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.

C. S. Lewis

It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.

C. S. Lewis

To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.

C. S. Lewis

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

C. S. Lewis

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

C. S. Lewis

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

C. S. Lewis

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

C. S. Lewis

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

C. S. Lewis

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

C. S. Lewis

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

C. S. Lewis

Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.

C. S. Lewis

Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying.

C. S. Lewis

I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.

C. S. Lewis

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.

C. S. Lewis

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Calvin Coolidge

I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.

Calvin Coolidge

There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I think, that when they are in real trouble and real difficulty over there, they turn to us as a nation that will be fair with them--one in whose judgment and in whose character they can rely; and that not withstanding differences that have seemed to exist, they are willing to abide by the faith that they have in us, and I think that is a very substantial accomplishment.

Calvin Coolidge

Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.

Burt Ward

I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends

Busta Rhymes

I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!

Busta Rhymes

My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.

Burt Rutan

Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and briefcases full of papers, will seem absolutely backward.

Busy Philipps

I would never be on a reality show.

Bryant H. McGill

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Bryant H. McGill

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

Bryant H. McGill

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

Bryant H. McGill

People are living books. The real library of life is community.

Bryant H. McGill

The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

Bryant H. McGill

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

Bryant H. McGill

Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.

Bryant H. McGill

Want is an empty void - your real value is full and abundant.

Bryant H. McGill

Once you realize what you really are, you cannot be stopped.

Bryant H. McGill

Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?