Quotes 101 till 120 of 295.
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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.
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I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
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If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
Source: The Problem of Pain (1940) -
If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Source: Mere Christianity (1952) -
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
Source: Mere Christianity -
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ''wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?
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If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.
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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis -
If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 22 -
If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
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In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
Source: The Abolition of Man (1943) -
In America most of us are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues.
Source: Lezing bij aanvaarden Nobelprijs 12-12-1930 -
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.
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