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Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart." [on Lord of the Rings]


C.S. Lewis

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LANCELOT ANDREWES I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old.
BRITNEY SPEARS I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get ...
LEMONY SNICKET The road goes ever on and on
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I like quoting 'Lord of the Rings': 'My list of allies grows thin! My list of enemies gr...
RONDA ROUSEY There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting ...
FREDERIKA BREMER There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting ...
FREDERIKA BREMER There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting ...
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LEMONY SNICKET 'Lord of the Rings' was going on; like, my college years were the years of 'Lord of the ...
EVAN DAUGHERTY There is a comfort in the strength of love;'T will make a thing endurable, which elseWould overset t...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH We're here to bless the Lord; we're not here to cause problems. But it's kind of like they're taking...
AARON HAWKINS I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old.
BRITNEY SPEARS He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
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FRANCOIS BOZIZE He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the ind...
GRAHAM GREENE Women who are into Lord of The Rings & The Hobbit are, like, the coolest people in the world
ED SHEERAN Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
MATTHEW (MATHEW) HENRY Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
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TANITH LEE Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answer...
N.T. WRIGHT I think it’s the whole ‘bad boy who’s so good but destined to break your heart’ fantasy. Whi...
LISA RENEE JONES No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
ISAAC BABEL Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read...
KEVIN J. ANDERSON Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude w...
LOUISE ERDRICH It's like being on Western Port Bay on a cold summer's afternoon. There's no one here. It's eerie.
DERMOTT BRERETON I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.
NATHAN KRESS So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is th...
JULES VERNE Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it o...
THOMAS MERTON Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
MATTHEW HENRY Service to others is the rent which you pay for your room here on earth.
MUHAMMAD ALI It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here'...
LIZ PHAIR Many of the hurricanes which reach Florida or the United States are formed here.
AMADOU GAYE Some olive oils are even rated as zero-cough, one-cough or two-cough. But you don't feel the sensati...
GARY BEAUCHAMP Your life is like a book you decide what to write on it or erase from it; But you might not be able ...
TOPSY GIFT A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know ...
JAMES HARRINGTON Edna Lewis had the hands and soul of a great artist, and like all great artists, she had something o...
ALICE WATERS There's nothing in here to like. As to how investors will react, the question is not which direction...
JOE CAMPBELL Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and dange...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical va...
C.S. LEWIS Truth is like the final flame of a candle which sparks a little brighter just to remind us that i am...
SWANSH It was going to be Pierce or Davis. It's not like we didn't talk about both of them. We lost the gam...
MIKE FRATELLO Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude...
LOUISE ERDRICH Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude w...
CECILIA LONDON Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT Like a boat in the ocean of fear; like a lamp which illumines the darkness; like fire which takes aw...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Well, here on the coast, ... the possibility of an earthquake, which would result in a tsunami, is o...
DAVID DAVIS Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. -As You Like It. A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Right is right and wrong is wrong. It's just like you know in your heart. Good and evil have always ...
ROBERT EGGLETON Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is...
W.G. SEBALD And withhold yourself with those who call on their Lord morning and evening desiring His goodwill, a...
QURAN Tolkien is eminently filmable, I think. 'The Lord of the Rings' is intensely... landscaped. ...
TERRY PRATCHETT There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make m...
NEIL GAIMAN We did not see any strangers like Saudis, Syrians or others, ... The people are suffering from lack ...
MOHAMMED ALI Give me a break. That's unbelievable. When nature's air conditioner turns on around here, I tell you...
ARRON OBERHOLSER The world is filled with archaic objects - mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look l...
RAYMOND LOEWY I feel good the file is closed, ... There are things here and there which I will note.
EZER WEIZMAN Do not have fear, the Lord your God is here.
JESUS There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tick...
ALEX DE CAMPI I never counted on a moment like this one. I played in a team which made it possible for me to be he...
LUIS FIGO When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Women are like shower faucets, you must treat them carefully, because if you do not, it will either ...
M.F. MOONZAJER More than half of them thought they only had asthma when they were having symptoms. They are treatin...
DR. ETHAN HALM What we're doing here is human interaction on a heart level. All of the volunteers here have bonded ...
BARRY MURCHISON In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
HERBERT SPENCER The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, rem...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
IAN MCKELLEN It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.
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LES ASPIN I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective ...
ROBERT MUELLER The weather here is nice. Being here is like being on the Riviera.
LUIGI BERGAMO The one, who doesn’t break your heart, will break your balls.
M.F. MOONZAJER Making a journey into C.S. Lewis' quotes is like a journey into the most beautiful floral valley whi...
JOEY TALLADINO I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Through shadow, to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight."- "Excerpt from Edge Of Night ...
JRR TOLKEIN I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN How are we supposed to get in?”
Stella kicked the metal shutter.
“Fool of a Took!” ...
MICHELLE HODKIN Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
HERBERT SPENCER Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
GLORIA STEINEM You don't have to like Mr. Lewis. You don't have to dislike Mr. Sutton. This is a cold, hard look at...
KEVIN O'CONNOR And here was Ronan, like a heart attack that never stopped.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I'd like to be on ESPN someday or maybe the next step is to go to a bigger school or the NFL, ... Bu...
BRIAN COREY Her tears will pierce into a marble heart.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had b...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Break through in life is like the main menu,but before you encounter it,you must first encounter man...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I had a lot of poor iron shots. A lot of 30- to 35-footers [putts]. I played the par 5s even par, wh...
CRAIG STADLER I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. I...
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C.S. LEWIS In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates o...
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C.S. LEWIS Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no ...
C.S. LEWIS Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C.S. LEWIS The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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C.S. LEWIS They tell me, Lord, that when I seem
To be in speech with you.
Since but one voice is heard, i...
C.S. LEWIS Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences,...
C.S. LEWIS Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is ...
C.S. LEWIS The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I wa...
C.S. LEWIS Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ...
C.S. LEWIS Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to av...
C.S. LEWIS We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris-
ing generation. I am an oldster myself and...
C.S. LEWIS Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...
C.S. LEWIS No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C.S. LEWIS And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, am...
C.S. LEWIS You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. LEWIS Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi...
C.S. LEWIS I desired dragons with a profound desire.
C.S. LEWIS What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh...
C.S. LEWIS Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
C.S. LEWIS You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of...
C.S. LEWIS But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do ...
C.S. LEWIS You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th...
C.S. LEWIS Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Ind...
C.S. LEWIS People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, 'If you keep a lot ...
C.S. LEWIS The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C.S. LEWIS We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shov...
C.S. LEWIS I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but becaus...
C.S. LEWIS In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A y...
C.S. LEWIS Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t...
C.S. LEWIS Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C.S. LEWIS I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give...
C.S. LEWIS Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he...
C.S. LEWIS You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m...
C.S. LEWIS We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that...
C.S. LEWIS If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan...
C.S. LEWIS All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are...
C.S. LEWIS A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from thos...
C.S. LEWIS Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
C.S. LEWIS What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong tu...
C.S. LEWIS If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis...
C.S. LEWIS Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
C.S. LEWIS Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
C.S. LEWIS “If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we ...
C.S. LEWIS To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possib...
C.S. LEWIS If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of t...
C.S. LEWIS Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, b...
C.S. LEWIS I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The gre...
C.S. LEWIS The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic...
C.S. LEWIS Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...
C.S. LEWIS The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small pric...
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