CS Lewis Quotes

Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people.

Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.

I've always kind of hated films about climate change.

I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write.

I think people are losing that sense of security pretty fast, frankly.

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day I day.

Baby, I'm yours until two and two is three.

Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this support.

Christians and Muslims share the belief that they are the fortunate recipient of the final God message.

If you don't take risks in life, you'll never see anything new.

I get scared because I regard women as the most beautiful creatures in the world.

The judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it

I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.

Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!

You ever see a poptart do the moonwalk? Magic

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.'

MCP, maximum controled pressure. No tomorrow, no waiting, nothing beyond the moment. We seek the perfect balance-total abandon on the drive, total control on the recovery.

I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.

You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.

After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's ergometer'.

We as producers need to keep an eye on things and make sure we're doing great stuff, which is sometimes easy to do because of the talent we have, and sometimes not so easy.

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.

The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.

One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

Come, live with me and you'll know me.

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

Man must endure his going hence.

Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

The absent are easily refuted.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!