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Best Down Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- 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…
- Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the…
- Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and…
- 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…
- 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.…
- First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear…
- Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's…
- 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…
- God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was…
- 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…
- I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the…
- The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth,…
- One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else…
- I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.…
- Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too…
- 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…
- Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes—like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night —little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections,…
- When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will…
- ...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of…
- All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you get to rule…
- An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but…
- A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's…
More Down Quotes
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods… — Rowan Atkinson
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe