CS Lewis Quotes

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

There's something bad in everything good and something good in everything bad.

When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.

My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.

He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his hands. But he squanders money. Thank God for it.

In Wall Street now, you have to hide what you're doing. It's more fun when you don't have to do that. But I don't think its sense of purpose has changed at all.

As long as I'm acting and doing what I love, I'll be happy.

I'm very comfortable being at home and keeping my head down, really. It's nice being invited to night clubs and stuff, which is nice once in a while, but I prefer to kind of keep to myself.

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.

The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.

The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?

It’s simple: when God is for you, who can be against you?

My thing about camp is to come in and be who I am, which is the most dominant player in the game, That's who I am, and that's what I'm here for.

Everything I got, I'm willing to sacrifice

We have come a long way on that old molecule DNA.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Big guys like you and me aren't allowed to whine.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.

The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.

I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.

But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.

I grew up going to the store, seeing the products [of L'Oréal ], seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in a million years thought I'd be associated with them.

Video can seem like just another challenge to overcome, but I see a major increase in my business and brand awareness, all from the power of video.

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.

Whatever your path is, that's your path.

I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.

The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.