Quotes 241 till 260 of 295.
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.
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They would say, he answered, that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.
Source: That Hideous Strength (1945) Ch. 7 : The Pendragon, section 2 -
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
Source: Mere Christianity (1952) -
Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) Ch. 15 -
To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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Try now to answer my third riddle. By what rule to you tell a copy from an original?
Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 52 -
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
Source: The Problem of Pain (1940) -
Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.
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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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