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kings children father
My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention. Carol Leifer
kings men lions
Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you. C. S. Lewis
kings doors narnia
Peter, High King of Narnia," said Aslan. "Shut the Door. C. S. Lewis
kings eye warrior
Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his hand was on his sword-hilt, and he carried his head high. Jill felt like crying when she looked at his face. And Jewel whispered in the King's ear, "By the Lion's Mane, I almost love this young warrior, Calormene though he be. He is worthy of a better god than Tash. C. S. Lewis
kings lying light
This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia. C. S. Lewis
kings cutting mind
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 be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this. C. S. Lewis
kings school adventure
Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get there at all. It'll happen when you're not looking for it. And don't talk too much about it even among yourselves. And don't mention it to anyone else unless you find that they've had adventures of the same sort themselves. What's that? How will you know? Oh, you'll know all right. Odd things, they say-even their looks-will let the secret out. Keep your eyes open. Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools." -The Profesor C. S. Lewis
kings years stories
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do. Aaron Sorkin
kings games being-me
The objective of a referee is not to get mentioned. I tell a lot of young referees that not being mentioned is king. If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game. Alan Lewis
mistake golf swings
A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes. Carol Mann
mistake men long
No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is not led by an acquired habit of mind to regard the infinite as something bounded. Carl Friedrich Gauss
mistake men talking
Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact. C. S. Lewis
mistake mean calling
I was wondering — I mean — could there be some mistake? Because nobody called me and Scrubb, you know. It was we who asked to come here. You would not have called me unless I had been calling you. C. S. Lewis
mistake sleep government
Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations. C. S. Lewis
mistake errors track
Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step. Agnes Martin
mistake wish would-be
I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense. Charlotte Bronte
mistake taken men
There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly known, we take pleasure, I think, in being consummately ignored. What honest man on being casually taken for a housebreaker does not feel rather tickled than vexed at the mistake? Charlotte Bronte
mistake army victory
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans. Charles de Gaulle
boys thinking years
The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all. C. S. Lewis
boys names sitting
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 grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort. C. S. Lewis
boys children half nine
We have nine children now half boys and half girls. Mark Twain
boys couple days final good national teams won
We have never won the national title. There will be some good teams there and it will be hard. The boys had a couple of days off after the Auckland final but are now back into training. Mark Jackson
boys chess fire items special students trucks
We want our students to be A students and we know they can do it. There are special items for B students such as bracelets and things for boys like fire trucks and chess sets. Gloria Smith
boys play roles
Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women, Aaron Sorkin
boys enough bigs
I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are. Alan Trammell
boys genius boyhood
A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure. Charles Dudley Warner
boys practice world
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one Charles Dudley Warner