"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 in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Girl Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Gentleman Quotes

“Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.”
“It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.”

Source : Xenophanes, James H. Lesher (2001). “Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments : a Text and Translation with a Commentary”, p.197, University of Toronto Press
“I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.”
“The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.”

Source : Orlando Williams Wight, Peter Abelard, Héloïse, Alphonse de Lamartine (1861). “Lives and Letters of Abelard and Heloise”, p.209
“I want to be the horse in the rotation that everybody can really rely on and is going to get that consistent starter.”
“The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.”
“The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.”
“Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.”

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