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Day Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to…
- All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain?…
- The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but…
- For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex
- The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling…
- Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
- The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next…
- Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.
- If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That…
- The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for…
- As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the…
- 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…
- He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course…
- Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.
- Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even…
- And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the…
- And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if…
- The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is…
- Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
- It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you…
- Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look…
- It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather…
- I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you…
- Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.
- Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we…
More Day Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong