Cs Lewis Faith And Reason Quotes & Sayings

As we become familiar with something, we think about it more in terms of the use we put it to and less in terms of what it looks like and what it is made of. — Steven Pinker

It is woefully hard to find good, or even merely literate, writers, and they laugh at me when I say that sloppy, go-as-you-please writing carries less authority than decent prose. You must remember our public, they say. And indeed that is what I do, and I think the public is fully able to deal with the best they can produce. Patronizing the public, and assuming that it hangs, breathless, upon what it reads in the papers, is almost the worst of journalistic sins. — Robertson Davies

If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew.
And you must sew my holey socks,
And soothe my troubled mind,
And develop the knack for scratching my back,
And keep my shoes spotlessly shined.
And while I rest you must rake up the leaves,
And when it is hailing and snowing
You must shovel the walk ... and be still when I talk,
And-hey-where are you going? — Shel Silverstein

I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married. — Khalil Gibran

The main problem is that many support the United Russia Party without even agreeing with its ideology - or even having an ideology of their own. — Vladislav Surkov

There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room. — Patrick O'Brian

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again. — Daphne Du Maurier

Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character. — James Madison

Maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it — David Mitchell

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend. — Dejan Stojanovic