C. S. Lewis Quotes

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.

No woman is a heroine to her dentist.

Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife.

Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

Powerlessness frustrates; absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely. Absolute frustration is a dangerous emotion to run a world with.

I have a thing where if I'm not in control, I feel the whole world is about to collapse.

I worry about everything, which is silly because there's very little you can control anyway.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Sometimes I feel I don't know even know how to run.

I've dreamed on numerous occasions that I've lost the biggest event in my life, and there was absolutely nothing that I could do about it.

I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.'

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

With Parkinson's, it's like you're in the middle of the street and you're stuck there in cement shoes and you know a bus is coming at you, but you don't know when. You think you can hear it rumbling, but you have a lot of time to think. And so you just don't live that moment of the bus hitting you until it happens. There's all kinds of room in that space.

No," he said calmly, filled with purpose. he took her arms lightly in his hands and shook her. "I am not giving you up." Emily looked at him, and for just a moment he could read her thoughts. Melanie use to say they were like twins, with their own secret, silent language. in that instant, Chris felt her fear and her resignation, and the knotty pain of coming up against a brick wall again and again. She glanced away, and he could breathe again. "The thing is, Chris" Emily said, "it's not your choice.

My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I cant do anything about.

Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

If you have to be at work at 8, it's always like, 7:54. Just enough time to do nothing. To just lay there and go, "I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.