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PHILIP ZALESKI The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
J. I. PACKER ...God broke me to fix me because he loved me. Author C.S. Lewis said, 'God whispers to us in our pl...
JEFFERSON BETHKE The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical va...
C.S. LEWIS In fact, the world needs more nerds.
BEN BERNANKE [Lewis] viewed the book as a suppositional representation — 'What might happen if animals and myth...
DOUGLAS GRESHAM [Lewis] viewed the book as a suppositional representation — 'What might happen if animals and mytho...
DOUGLAS GRESHAM When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kid...
EOIN COLFER There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour i...
RIDLEY SCOTT If we're going to object to depicting magic in books, then we are going to have to reject C.S. Lewis...
THE WIZARD OF OZ 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 Isn't it funny that day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
C.S. LEWIS Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
DENIS DIDEROT The average child is an almost non- existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or...
HEYWOOD C. BROUN The average child is an almost non-existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or a...
HEYWOOD C. BROUN His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the righ...
ABRAHAM COWLEY Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don’t mean it’s a myth.
CHINA MIéVILLE What might be musical today might differ from what was musical some years ago.
CLYDE MCKENZIE I don't have an entourage. In fact, I have no live-in help.
LAUREN BACALL I'm a real Swede! In fact, I'm a quarter Finnish.
ALICIA VIKANDER The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS One of our competitors has created this myth that DC power is more efficient. In fact, the opposite ...
ANDY BECHTOLSHEIM Your decision will cause him to be one way or another in a box.. either a cement one or a pine one (...
JONATHAN SHAPIRO One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it...
ALDOUS HUXLEY I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been ...
GARRETT DILLAHUNT I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I...
ERIC MCCORMACK I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
INDIANA EVANS There is a difference between love and to be in love. Just like there is a difference between a diam...
CORTNIE GOODNIGHT "if it hurts when you laugh, it's a good indication you need to do it more often, you may not live a...
SHAUN PARKER The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaph...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST Myth is what we call other people's religion.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.
ANON. Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underl...
JOHN O. BRENNAN If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that t...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
ALBERT CAMUS The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.
JOHN HANNING SPEKE We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.
GUY RITCHIE Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.
ATHOL FUGARD The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. BRADLEY The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
FRANCIS HERBERT BRADLEY There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the...
CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS The early Journal was a bit analogous to Lewis and Clark going west, describing everything they saw....
DAVID WATSON What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and...
SAI BABA IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.
MURRAY WALKER Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. S...
G. K. CHESTERTON I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
JERRY B. JENKINS Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
MARLENE DIETRICH Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
MARLENE DIETRICH The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never fe...
H.G. WELLS I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously....
LEWIS CARROLL Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, �...
LEWIS CARROLL You just go where your high-top sneakers sneak, and don't forget to use your head.
CHESHIRE CAT I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.
LEWIS CARROLL I wonder if I've been changed in the night. Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning?...
LEWIS CARROLL In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
AUDRE LORDE I know myself and Ray Lewis have similar builds. People say what they want to, but (Savage) was one ...
D'QWELL JACKSON It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the ...
CHEECH MARIN True best friends never fail on understanding, forgiving, and being there for one another no matter ...
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to ...
DOUGLAS FEITH Other than taxpayers, we might be one of the few winners in the recent unpleasantness.
TREY WALKER One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidd...
VICTOR HUGO The terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as g...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
MICHAEL SHERMER I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
SALLY PHILLIPS In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
HANS-GEORG GADAMER As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
NATALIA VODIANOVA Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. LEWIS Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
FRANCES WRIGHT I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
ALANA STEWART Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.
CHICK COREA In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.
ALBERTO FUJIMORI No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA You're not in love. You only like the feeling of being in love.
CHICHA BANS When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The vi...
PHILIP PULLMAN Lewis exasperated her, always talking about life before the Plague and how it would be if everything...
J.M. SULLIVAN We executed much better in the third quarter and got Lewis isolated. We made some adjustments offens...
BARRY GEBHART Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
RANSOM RIGGS It's not that unusual in the context of Bill Wrigley taking over where there might be some unanticip...
BRIAN HAMILTON Men always want what they can’t have, or what other men want. It’s a scientific fact.
GINA L. MAXWELL In some areas of California, you might be four or five times more likely to get in an accident than ...
BILL MARTIN Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of...
MICHAEL MOORCOCK I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion...
DAVID LISS Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a w...
TERRY PRATCHETT I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irra...
MATT MULLENWEG In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
MARLENE DIETRICH What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find
in the grime of the everyda...
COLUM MCCANN what matter most ? _ you . only you.everyday every event would pass by through your vein
LITYMUNSHI She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be sepa...
SHANNON A. THOMPSON Some of our kids in the program might not be as committed as I want them to be. We'll weed them out ...
DAVE ROBBINS It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person ...
ANN M. MARTIN In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.
CHAIM POTOK I went to my first Westminster in 1989. It put that dream in my head to one day show there. In the U...
KATRINA STEWART Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”

The c...
LEWIS CARROLL Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really...
OSCAR WILDE I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.
GRETA GARBO My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what mat...
BELA KAROLYI What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority...
WALTER LIPPMANN Our fear that Communism might some day take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-c...
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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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