CS Lewis Quotes
It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.
Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.
I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.
Anyone can devise a plan by which good people may go to Heaven. Only God can devise a plan whereby sinners, who are His enemies, can go to Heaven.
What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races.
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.
Donald Trump came out as a birther, which is Republican for, 'I'm running for president.'
We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.
Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.
The world is an unfair place because of bullying. A lot of parents loose their children because of bullying next time think twice before bullying someone.
There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield.
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
Sure every driver has his value and you want to be respected... but again money is not something that drives me.
There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."
Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.
I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.
I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.
