Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

C. S. Lewis

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

C. S. Lewis

If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely, and in a humility that passes understanding. If the world exists not chiefly that we may love God, but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes. If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

C. S. Lewis

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

C. S. Lewis

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Bill Vaughan

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

Arlen Specter

Judge Roberts has projected a very unique persona as he has talked about modesty and humility,

William Shakespeare

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

C. S. Lewis

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

C. S. Lewis

Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.

Catullus

I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

Catie Curtis

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

Catie Curtis

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

Cecelia Ahern

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

Cecelia Ahern

I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.

Cecelia Ahern

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

Cecelia Ahern

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.

Charlotte Bronte

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

Brandon Sanderson

I've found you can ignore half of what Dox tells you and not miss much-except for maybe they occasional complaint that you're spending too much.

Angus Wilson

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

Jim Butcher

Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.” “Well,” I said, “if you’re going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn’t it.

Nora Roberts

Once love found you it clung, no matter how much you tried to shake it off.

Michael A. Stackpole

I am so glad I found you and didn't kill you" - Mara Jade Skywalker to Luke Skywalker

Jodi Picoult

I only just found you, I can't lose you now

Tom Petty

Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.

Terry Pratchett

No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.