A.A. Lewis Quotes
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich shouldn't be taxed-- THAT is leadership!
Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.
If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.
There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.
Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.
A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.
He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.
When you're driving, the helmet squashes your hair, so you don't really have a hairstyle. When you get out, you're sweating and your hair is a mess.
When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.
The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.
The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of the spirit.
I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then
I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.
To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.
In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.
Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.