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- We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something…
- The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us…
- The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be…
- Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age…
- Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without…
- Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
- Die before you die, there is no chance after.
- I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
- That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized…
- The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up…
- If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.
- Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!
- Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
- In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can…
- If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.…
- To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were,…
- There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself……
- See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.
- Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my…
- The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!
- Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where…
- Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong…
- And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril…
- The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
- The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt…
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- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood