You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.


C.S. Lewis

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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me
C.S. LEWIS
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You'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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You can kill me when I no longer enjoy a cup of tea
CARRIE TIFFANY
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ANDREA PARK
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SOURCE UNKNOWN
You can never get enough of what you don't want.
WAYNE DYER
You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'
KIRSTEN DUNST
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN
You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
It can never, ever, ever get weird enough for me.
JAMES SPADER
I wasn't sure I'd ever find a man strong enough to suit me.
GABRIELLE REECE
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
ERIC HOFFER
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
BILL WATTERSON
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitive...
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There's never enough. You can use as many you can get.
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Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough, I can single handed move the world.
UNKNOWN
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
ARCHIMEDES
There's never enough of the stuff you can't get enough of.
PATRICK H.T. DOYLE
No one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don'...
FRANK MCCOURT
A good cup of Earl Grey tea - you can't beat it.
ANTONIA THOMAS
I couldn't find my cup of tea.

So probably, I've been simply taking a sip from everyone e...
SANHITA BARUAH
How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
Enough is enough. There is only so long you can beat a dead horse,
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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ELSA PERETTI
Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Learn from the mistakes of others-you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
JOHN LUTHER
Besides the long hours, it became too hard to maintain a large-enough staff.
NANCY ALLMAN
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MARVIN J. ASHTON
Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Her account is that she tried to get out of having to read it, but it was no use."
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e...
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If they can’t get close enough to hurt you, they can’t get close enough to love you.
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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
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The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give is enough love.
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My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.
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You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.
DAVE PELZER
That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. ...
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All God's chillun got shoes or can get them in Mrs Marcos's closet, which is large enough to house M...
GEORGE F. WILL
I said just let me try one more time and she said, "THAT'S ENOUGH, ISABEL," again, and she could jus...
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You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
MORLEY SAFER
It's a little bit premature to be declaring victory until we've had a large enough number of clinica...
CHARLES HENNEKENS
I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.
SYLVIA BROWNRIGG
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MATT SMITH
I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you co...
DAMIEN HIRST
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior...
A. J. LIEBLING
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
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IAN POULTER
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand yo...
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It's a tough position. You get a lot of credit at times or a lot of blame at other times, ... If you...
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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck
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I've lived in L.A. for a long time, and they say, 'If you sit in a barber's shop for lon...
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...God broke me to fix me because he loved me. Author C.S. Lewis said, 'God whispers to us in our pl...
JEFFERSON BETHKE
In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem.
Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of t...
DAVID WALLIAMS
And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours ...
EMILY DICKINSON
You can never have enough talent.
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K.A. TUCKER
I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast...
ETHEL MERMAN
You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. -Joe E. Lewis.
JOE E. LEWIS
Find yourself a cup of tea,
the teapot is behind you.
Now tell me about
hundreds of t...
SAKI
I can’t get past one or two pages at a time.’

‘That’s how it’s supposed to be ...
SADEQA JOHNSON
If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
ART BUCHWALD
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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WILL DURANT
If you want something bad enough if you really want it bad enough if you work for it long enough bel...
LISA ADAMS
I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stea...
FRANK ABAGNALE
Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.
CHARLES PLATT
You can't cross a river until you can take your eyes off it long enough to build a bridge.
MELINDA OVERTURF
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life ...
AUDREY HEPBURN
If you're servant enough, you can shrink into the shadows, even in the bright morning sun and even i...
ERICA EISDORFER
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to r...
WILL DURANT
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to r...
WILLIAM J. DURANT
Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
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The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone,...
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May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.
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You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.
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Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no ...
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up o...
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There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he...
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking d...
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They tell me, Lord, that when I seem
To be in speech with you.
Since but one voice is heard, i...
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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences,...
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Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is ...
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The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I wa...
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Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, ...
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Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to av...
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We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris-
ing generation. I am an oldster myself and...
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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike t...
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, am...
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Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon hi...
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I desired dragons with a profound desire.
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What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on wh...
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of...
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But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do ...
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You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect th...
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Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Ind...
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People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, 'If you keep a lot ...
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shov...
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but becaus...
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In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A y...
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t...
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give...
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Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he...
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You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own m...
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that...
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explan...
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All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are...
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A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from thos...
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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
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What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong tu...
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis...
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
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Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither.
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“If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we ...
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possib...
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If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of t...
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Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, b...
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I like bats much better than bureaucrats. I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The gre...
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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epic...
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense ...
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The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small pric...
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We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walk...
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