Quotes 161 till 180 of 295.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
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Now I'm 'Blake Lewis' to the world, but I will always still be Bshorty from Bothell...I've never looked at it like a competition so I think I've won regardless. I won when I got to the top ten; I've already reached my goal.
Source: In interviews Hot Guy of the Week: American Idols Blake Lewis. U -
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.
Source: Mere Christianity (1952) -
Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis -
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
Source: Mere Christianity (1952) -
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
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One must keep on pointing out that Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost (1941) -
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
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Our father was married twice,' continued Humanist. 'Once to a lady named Epichaerecacia, and afterwards to Euphuia...
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Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.
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