C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Charm never made a rooster.”
“charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.”
“Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
“Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.”
Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
“Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.”
Source: Shutter Island
“Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”
“Charmed is fun and light, one of those shows that let you turn your brain off for an hour.”
“Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.”
Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
“Charming is the perfect word to describe Charlie [Sheen]. That's why people love him. He's so personable. They can relate to him. He made mistakes and he knows it. Everyone is like that. That is why he has so many fans.”
“Charming people are only good at seducing innocent souls.”
“Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.”
Source: Afterthoughts
“Charming the Freedom,eternal freedom,to express my naked thoughts,the gloom of dissatisfaction,the yearning bliss! and its Poesy's dazzling dance.”
“Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.”
Source: Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson
“Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.”
“Charms and oaths and guardian spirits were all the product of a need for something to believe in because people didn’t believe in themselves, a need to let problems resolve on their own rather than confront them. People were predominantly fearful of disruption, even of the things they found overbearing, even as they attempted to wish them away. It was why they invented heroes. It was why the world suffered through long periods of stagnation between innovations. Because rather than change the things that needed change, people preferred to cower and wait until a hero arrived to do it for them. Assuming by that point it was not already too late.”
Source: The Least Envied
“Charonte are guarding a Dimme? Is the world coming to an end and I missed the memo? (Stryker)”
Source: Dream Chaser
“Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and pearls clatter to the stage… I’m in a dress of the exact design of my wedding dress, only it’s the color of coal and made of tiny feathers. Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that’s when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings. Because Cinna had turned me into a mockingjay.”
“Charred, blackened, and cooked, the morsel was brought to the mouth and chewed, contemplated, and swallowed with relish. There was no sauce or seasoning and no consideration for aesthetics or art. Yet the combination of meat and fire yielded something revolutionary. Cooked meat made man happy.”
Source: Paleo Grilling: A Modern Caveman's Guide to Cooking with Fire
“Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.”
“Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.”
“Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.”
“Charter boats are like books with no covers.”
“Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.”
“Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.”
“Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.”
“Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.”
“Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.”
“Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.”
“Charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.”
“Charts are a leading indicator of fundamental analysis”
“Charts are great for predicting the past.”
“Charumela is an Art School for all the children of the world.”
“Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.”
“Chase a butterfly and you will discover the joys of wandering into uncharted trails.”
“Chase after form, and you'll miss the soul - throw yourself into the soul, and neurons will regrow.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Chase after money and security
And your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
And you will be their prisoner.
Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.”
“Chase after money and the stuggering race will never end; but reach out for successful ideas and the sources of money will chase after you to fill your pockets.”
“Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.”
“Chase after the truth like all hell.”
“Chase and I are in this for the long haul. I've stood before him and he's stood before me. And this is what it's all come down to: Chase Gartner is my future, my forever. And I, I am his.”
Source: I Stand Before You
“Chase away sorrow by living”
“Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.”
“Chase career relationships, not job postings.”
Source: Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50
“Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“Chase excellence, success will follow”
“Chase God's heart today. Christianity has got to be more than a label, a lingo, and a lifestyle.”
“Chase grabbed Joey’s neck and hauled him into a kiss.
Oh shit.
Not again.
It didn’t matter how many times it had been wrong, he still wanted to believe it. Wanted to believe it when he kissed a guy and everything inside said him. It had been wrong about Mark and Noah and Jorge and Tom and the whole list going right back to kissing Eduardo under the bleachers in tenth grade. Or maybe before. When he’d been three and told his mom he was going to marry his best friend Cody.”
Source: Collision Course
“Chase.” He cleared his throat and shook his head once. “That girl means everything to me. Which means her baby does, too. I will never do to you what you did to Harper and me. But know this. If you do not take care of them, and cherish them . . . I will not hesitate again to beat the living shit out of you. You get me?”
“I got you. I love them, I’ll always take care of them.”
Source: Stealing Harper
“Chase him down and stall for time. I need two more minutes. ” “Chase him down? How? The Neon has a flat.” “With your own two feet!” “You mean exercise?”
Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale