English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

C. S. Lewis Quotes

Ah, the Saved...what happens to them is best described as the opposite of a mirage. What seemed, when they entered it, to be the vale of misery turns out, when they look back, to have been a well; and where present experience saw only salt deserts, memory truthfully records that the pools were full of water.

C. S. Lewis

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp. Pat Sajak
LL Cool J quote: "Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices."
Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices. LL Cool J
Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song. Thurston Moore
Aristotle quote: "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle
Simone Weil quote: "Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness."
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. Simone Weil
John Keble quote: "As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by..."
As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. John Keble
Ryan Seacrest quote: "It's in my blood to be on the radio every day. I've done it..."
It's in my blood to be on the radio every day. I've done it since I was 16 years old. Ryan Seacrest
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us. Above all, we have to look at the total design of a writer's work, the title he gives to it, and the his main theme, which means his point in writing it, to understand that literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but... Northrop Frye
I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that. Sam Dash
In short, he was a dope. He often looked to Yossarian like one of those people hanging around modern museums with both eyes together on one side of a face. It was an illusion, of course, generated by Clevinger's predilection for staring fixedly at one side of a question and never seeing the other side at all. Joseph Heller
There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody. Carlos Santana
B. B. King quote: "The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it..."
The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King
I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment. Amy Weber
T. Boone Pickens quote: "If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership,..."
If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team. T. Boone Pickens
What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information. John Warnock