C Quotes
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“Cal stares at the floor, silent for a long, stoic moment. "I never thought Maven would do that to her," he mutters finally. "She probably didn't either."
Then you're both stupid, my brain screams. How many times does one wicked boy have to betray you people before you learn?”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage”
Source: King's Cage
“Cal stepped forward, hopefully to come to my rescue.
"I could toss her off the pier, Ms. Vanderlyden."
Or not.”
Source: Demonglass
“Cal, watching Adam's face, had seen his mind leap into the past for a lie. Cal didn't hate the lie but the necessity for telling it. Cal lied for reasons of profit of one kind or another. To be driven to a lie seemed shameful to him.”
Source: East of Eden
“Cal: “Yesterday I was stuck in a car with you for eight hours.”
Bastard. I didn’t even sing along with the radio. Much.
Me: “Yeah. And?”
Cal: “Something happened.”
Me: “If you’re referring to my driving skills, may I just say I didn’t TOUCH that truck. What you felt was just the wind. We were going pretty fast. And there wasn’t even a scratch. I checked.”
Every Boy's Got One”
“Cal ’s eyes reflected a weird combination of frenzy and fear as he twisted toward his father. “My God! She’s on her way to becoming the most famous physicist in the country, and she’sdumb as a post ! You arenot having your baby in this house! You’re having it at the county hospital!”
“Cal," I whisper into her sleep, "if you go, you know what? You'll break my liver." I want to pretend that it's a joke, that she will wake up and laugh with me, throwing her head back the way she did last night, bit this time the words are true . . . she will break my liver, break my heart, kill everything inside alive inside me.”
“Cal: “Could you write a little bigger? I’m not sure China saw that.” Every Boy's Got One”
“Calabi-Yau manifolds, like math itself, are developing stories on a road that undoubtedly holds many twists and turns. It means there's always more to be learned, always more to be done. And for those of us who worry about keeping employed, keeping engaged, and keeping amused, it means there should be plenty of challenges, as well as fun, in the years ahead.”
Source: Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry
“Calaine lifted her chin a smidge and resisted the urge to smooth her hands over her skirt. Ma always said one’s personality made the outfit—a sour disposition made the prettiest silk look unsightly, but a pleasing smile could cause the rattiest homespun dress to look like an elegant gown. So, instead of returning the man’s glare, she offered a tiny smile. She would win him over, this crabby curmudgeon, and work for his unpleasant self until she raised enough money for Jared’s cure.”
Source: A Silent Hope
“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”
“Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.”
Source: Towards a true refuge
“Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!”
“Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah”
Source: A Voice in the Wind
“Calamity is man's true touchstone.”
“Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.”
“Calamity is the test of integrity.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Calamity is virtue's opportunity.”
“Calamity was ordained for man.”
“Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so.”
“CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not necessarily make us repent. The essence of repentance is that we cannot be repentant until we confront our own self righteousness with God's righteousness.”
“Calamus fortior gladio.”
“Calano su di noi alcuni attimi di silenzio che mi ingoiano, la sua frase mi mangia, la sento azzannarmi, devo reagire e porre distanza.
La mia vita non è la sua, la mia vita è mia, la mia vita mi compete, la costruisco io e io la distruggo, allora reagisco, come burattino inghiottito dalla balena insieme al plancton io salto e scalcio per uscire e tornare nel mare, affiorare, navigare a vista, non sarò pasto
di questa asserzione, non cadrò nella sua gola di fonemi e parole. La guardo furibonda e mi alzo dalla sedia come se m’avessero punta tra le cosce, il pizzicore sale e s’infila nelle mutande, stringo i glutei e cerco di cacciarlo via, ma quel fastidio è già dentro, imbastisce un nido di vespe: la nostra vita, la nostra condizione, il nostro tetto, le nostre stoviglie, il nostro futuro, il nostro investimento, la nostra spesa per il pranzo, il nostro denaro che non c’è.
La mia vita non è la tua, urlo con la voce alta, urlo dalle mie fondamenta, dalla piccola me, dalle viscere umide e sento la nostra terra aprirsi, gli alberi cadere – smottamenti e tonfi – ho la faccia calda, i capelli elettrici, le gambe prudono e c’è una creatura dentro
di me, furente, ignobile, che non ne può più delle misure di contenimento.”
Source: L'acqua del lago non è mai dolce
“CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.”
“Calcifer," Sophie said, "I shall have to break your contract. Will it kill you?" "It would if anyone else broke it," Calcifer said hoarsely. "That's why I asked you to do it.”
Source: Wizard's Castle
“Calcification is the hardening of body tissues by calcium salts or deposits. Although calcification itself is not considered a disease, it has been shown to be a significant contributing factor in nearly every known illness and aging condition, including heart disease, kidney stones, gallstones, chronic inflammation, arthritis, cancers, cataracts, eczema, psoriasis, and even wrinkles.”
Source: Longevity Now: A Comprehensive Approach to Healthy Hormones, Detoxification, Super Immunity, Reversing Calcification, and Total Rejuvenation
“Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.”
“Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“Calculate the fine structure constant from first principles.”
Source: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
“Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!”
“Calculated and craven political stunt.”
“Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.”
“Calculated risk is an opportunity;
careless risk a potential tragedy.”
“Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely crazy.”
Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
“Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.”
Source: Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States
“Calculated risks separate the successful from the stagnant. Take the leap.”
Source: MENTAL TOUGHNESS: Unbreakable Mind
“Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.”
“Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death is considered loss and life is considered gain. Thus, death is something that such a person does not care for, and he is contemptable. Furthermore, scholars and their like are men who with wit and speech hide their own true cowardice and greed. People often misjudge this.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.”
“Calculating your BMI is relatively easy: You can visit one of the scores of online BMI calculators, or you can grab a calculator and calculate it on your own. To do so, multiply your weight in pounds by 703. Then divide that twice by your height in inches. For example, if you weigh 200 pounds and are 71 inches tall (five foot eleven), that would be (200 × 703) ÷ 71 ÷ 71 = 27.9, a BMI indicating that you would be, unfortunately, significantly overweight.”
Source: How Not to Diet
“Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.”
“Calculation never made a hero.”
Source: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
“Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.”
Source: Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally
“Calculo, como si fuera informe de gobierno, que he publicado unos 60 mil dibujos en 60 años, y si contara todos los que he hecho, dibujo por dibujo, paso de los cien mil fácilmente.”
“Calculo mentalmente. Si cada día trabajo nueve horas y duermo siete, me quedan ocho para escribir y leer. Si quiero escribir de noche, nadie me lo impedirá. Igual que nadie me animará a hacerlo. Nadie espera una novela de Hekla Gottskálksdóttir.”
Source: Miss Island
“Calculus destroys self-esteem on contact.”
“Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.”
“Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.”