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Taken Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are…
- Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken…
- Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books…
- And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.
- It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance…
- Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken…
- There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is…
- Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
- Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the…
- They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being…
- The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb,…
- I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor…
- 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…
- In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now…
- It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the…
- Tea should be taken in solitude.
- An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but…
More Taken Quotes
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Teresa of Avila
- I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once… — Michele Bachmann
- Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to… — Robert Baden-Powell
- A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. — Robert Baden-Powell
- By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they… — Mikhail Bakunin
- There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever… — Alec Baldwin
- We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken… — William Barclay
- What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is… — Julian Barnes
- The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands,… — Mario Batali