C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.”
“Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.”
Source: The World Of The Sufi
“Certain life experiences are so gosh-darned delicious that it can be really hard to say "Stop. I enjoyed this, but enough is enough.”
Source: Empath Empowerment in 30 Days
“Certain majors [lables] just know what they're doin', and got a good grip on the dynamic of what's happening, and some don't.”
“Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.”
“Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.”
“Certain media attracts more pulpy or low-brow things, especially when they're young. Finding the best story, in any particular medium, is going to be as good, in any other medium.”
“Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“Certain men are liable to be duped, and there is no creature so gullible as the certain man.”
Source: The Spirit Engineer
“Certain money is not always good money. It could be just being at the wrong place at the wrong time. I mean, if you have your priorities in check then for the most part it's easy.”
“Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can't kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up some times, but, bitch, nobody kills the motherfucking Rooster. You know what I'm saying?”
Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
“Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we'd have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants.”
“Certain movies that are trying to evoke history are just like being in an antique store, and all you notice is that all the stuff has been gathered together, and it feels like a pile of antiques. How can you think that that will evoke the past? It doesn't even have to evoke anything, but anyway, it's how we're living. It's this moment where nobody has to immediately think too much about how things are being documented. It's a great time.”
“Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.”
“Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your world view and gives you more confidence in your cultural achievements. Improvisational jazz teaches you about yourself while the swing in jazz teaches you how to work with others”
“Certain mysteries are for formal reasons impenetrable, and here is the vast darkness of the subject.”
Source: Naven: A Survey of the Problems suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe drawn from Three Points of View
“Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.”
“Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his "angel"--with whom he must be reunited if he is to rise above his fragmentary identity as a worldling and become whole, as he is (and always has been) in the mind of God.”
Source: Islam and the Destiny of Man
“Certain names always awake certain prejudices.”
“Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Certain news is too precarious for low mouths to deliver.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Certain nights, when everything's perfect and we have thousands of people partying their asses off, I break my rule and have a drink onstage. I've never done a show drunk. Well, I take that back. In the early days I did.”
“Certain non-decorative artworks
render the artist an administrator,
one’s own secretary, busy
with calls and logistics.
The artistry is in the idea,
it’s all downhill from there.”
“Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.”
“Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law.”
“Certain parts of me became a little bit forgotten, a little bit numb, a little bit dead, and it was nice to have some dead places in me for a little while, to lose a little bit of my broken mind.”
Source: The Dream of Perpetual Motion
“Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.”
“Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.”
“Certain people are for me and certain people are pro me.”
“Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.”
“Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.”
“Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.”
Source: Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love
“Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.”
“Certain people have the eye of the tiger, and I never was myself that kind of person, although I'm not a slacker.”
“Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were afraid, I couldn't do what I do.”
“Certain people in life are just going to take what's given to them, and certain people in life know they want better and they're going to go find better. I've always been that type of person.”
“Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.”
“Certain people just go home and veg out, certain people go travel the world and certain people are like, "Screw this, I'm going to work the entire time."”
“Certain people uplift you; others pull you down. Certain people give you strength; others sap your energy. Choose carefully. Good friends, like neighbors, are an endless benefit, a treasure. Bad relationships and bad friends can ruin a lifetime. Following the path of the superior person permits a natural section that will find you only with the best-quality friends.”
Source: I Ching Life: Becoming Your Authentic Self
“Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.”
“Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time.”
“Certain people will be upset when you speak the truth. They might get mad. They might get really mad. That's because they are still living the lie you've exposed. Stay strong. Speak truth. Do not allow yourself to get pulled back into their lie just to make others happy and yourself miserable. You are free. Stay free.”
“Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work.”
“Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.”
“Certain pitches you throw, they lay off them like they knew it was coming.”
“Certain political figures think when you call them and ask them for a comment; that you are somehow doing something that you shouldn't be doing.”
“Certain positive words—like “peace” or “love”—may actually have the power to alter the expression of genes throughout the brain and body, turning them on and off in ways that lower the amount of physical and emotional stress we normally experience throughout the day.”
Source: Words Can Change Your Brain: 12 Conversation Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflict, and Increase Intimacy
“Certain programming could hack human body into saying and doing certain things and extract information such as thoughts.”
Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy
“Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.”