C. S. Lewis Quotes

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

C. S. Lewis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963

Topics

TruthArtManCaringLiteratureYou

We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That's what families care about.

Jodi Rell

WorkGoodFightPrideCareBack

The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.

Robert Zemeckis

WorkLoveOpinionFeelingCountry

I like CrossFit. I agree with a lot of their coaching tips and the foundation of functional movements and hard work. They embody all that stuff. But I also think there's a bit of a cult following within the CrossFit community, a bit of a fraternity, which obviously creates a bias and a little bit of a tunnel vision.

Roman Reigns

WorkHard WorkCommunityVisionBias

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Mary Astell

TruthLightLieGovernmentDesign

The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle - the production of new fuel, the processing of weapon-usable material, the disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste - would be less vulnerable to proliferation if brought under multinational control.

Mohamed ElBaradei

CommunityJobRisksControlBetter

My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

Luke Bryan

MusicFeelYouYoungWantTry

I find nice people kind of boring.

Jason Reitman

PeopleFindNiceKindBoring

I grew up watching Wonder Woman; I grew up watching Batman. I grew up watching George Reeves as Superman.

Diane Lane

WomanWonderSupermanWatchingUp

I think anyone in life, everyone in the world, no matter what work they do, they should think of wanting to get on, to win, improve.

Diego Costa

LifeWorkWinWorldThinkMatter

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

Breyten Breytenbach

SituationCircumstancesHumanRights

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen

DeathDieWantAfraidJustHappens

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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