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Cutting Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
- One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
- Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.
- The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
- Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness…
- And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others;…
- There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and…
- The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded,…
- The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
- 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…
- It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and…
- Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to…
- When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off…
- If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to…
- And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say…
- And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely…
- I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's…
- I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is…
- For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the…
- The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate…
- For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going…
More Cutting Quotes
- Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do… — Darren Aronofsky
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. — Margaret Atwood
- Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas. — Joe Baca
- Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war. — Michele Bachmann
- After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington… — Michele Bachmann
- '3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason… — Christian Bale
- But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other… — Honore de Balzac
- I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's… — Iain Banks
- A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his… — Clara Barton
- If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times… — Bernard Baruch