Quotes 41 till 60 of 295.
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As for wrinkles-Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.
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As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.
Source: The Weight of Glory (1949) -
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.
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Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
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Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
Source: The Screwtape Letters (1942) -
Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence - the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are on concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
Source: The Worlds Last Night (1952) -
But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?
Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 132-133 -
But then again of course I know perfectly well that He can't be used as a road. If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you're not really approaching Him at all.
Source: A Grief Observed (1961) -
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
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Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.
Source: The Screwtape Letters (1942) -
Curiouser and curiouser!
Source: Alice in wonderland -
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
Source: Surprised by Joy (1955)
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