C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.”
“Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.”
“Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.”
“Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.”
“Calling oneself a spiritual author or a saint or a Godman is also self-ignorance and egotistical, since the immortal life has always been an out-of-reach concept for mankind;”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Calling out the supposed ‘abuse’ of welfare by blacks and other people of color is a time-honored tactic for distracting the general public from actual national issue. It also taps into latent, subconscious racism, which is what right-wing politicians would call a ‘win-win.”
Source: Dear White People
“Calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged.”
“Calling people out their names is a bad habit the people of European descent seem to have. The one that takes the rag off the bush is how they went all the way to Africa and called nature out of its name...Victoria Falls, Leopoldville, Johannesburg, Lake Victoria, Lake Rudolf, Lake Albert, etc. The W.F.'s that came here did the same thing with the indigenous people living here...called them Indians; and years later missionaries, government officials, census takers, etc., "tidied up their records and account books by arbitrarily shortening or changing the names of their charges." "He Who Causes Fear" and "Brave Chief" suddenly became Indian Joe and Bob.”
Source: Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae
“Calling people stupid with no real solution of your own is a fool's reach for superiority.”
“Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and association. Calling resists polarization by requiring an attitude toward, and action in, society that is inevitably transforming because it is constantly engaged. Grand Christian movements will rise and fall. Grand campaigns will be mounted and grand coalitions assembled. But all together such coordinated efforts will never match the influence of untold numbers of followers of Christ living out their callings faithfully across the vastness and complexity of modern society.”
Source: The Call
“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present.”
“Calling someone a bull beware the horns of a bull.”
“Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?”
“Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.”
“Calling someone equally as anxious on the phone makes you feel less alone. Sometimes the best thing to hear is not "Don't worry, it's going to be okay" but actually "Tell me about it! The whole world is going to explode and I haven't slept for weeks. Now let me tell you about my specific fears of small boats and big businesses!”
Source: Yes Please
“Calling something "new age" is one of the media's biggest canons. If you're called "new age," you couldn't possibly be serious, you couldn't possibly have anything deep to say, and you probably hang out in California too much - and we know that no one in California reads books or has any serious thoughts!”
“Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it's so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren't especially interested in viewing them as people - just as objects representing their culture.”
“Calling the police is like playing a game of Russian Roulette, as you may land on the bullet of the corrupt police officer!”
“Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.”
Source: The Role of Women
“Calling themselves the Slush Pile Brigade as a nod to the unsolicited writings sent to publishing houses, four friends take on the publishing industry and get caught up in dangerous events beyond their control in Samuel Marquis's The Slush Pile Brigade. This high-energy, rollicking misadventure will change the way you look at the publishing industry forever. The plot--complete with car chases and the requisite gun play--is unpredictable and sometimes turns violent; twists and turns and counterturns abound. So, too, does the humor. Numerous references to classic movies, songs, and literature are sprinkled throughout...The dialogue is superb, especially the rat-a-tat round robin responses given when the Slush Pile Brigade members are in discussion. Be prepared to never look at the publishing world in the same way again."
Foreword Reviews - Five Stars (******)”
“Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.”
“Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.”
“Calliope got to stay in New York and live a stable, "normal" life for the first time in years. But it came with a tremendous price tag: she couldn't be herself. Although, was anyone really themselves in New York?”
Source: The Towering Sky
“Calliope," she spoke into the wind.
Her first daughter would be the composed, unflappable leader of the pack; the sister the other girls turned to for guidance. Mnemosyne would give her the gift of storytelling. The thought of another being sharing her love of the written word filled Mnemosyne's heart with unspeakable joy.”
Source: Bemused
“Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see her in motion.”
Source: The Aeronaut's Windlass
“Callipygian:
Having shapely buttocks.”
Source: Anna and the French Kiss
“Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?”
“Callous greed grows pious very fast.”
“CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary
“CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.".”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.”
“calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.”
Source: Speaking Truth to Power
“Calls for ethnic cleansing and even incitement to genocide have become a routine feature of mainstream Israeli discourse while a majority of Jewish Israelis favor a broad array of policies aimed at forcible segregation, discriminatory laws and population transfer.”
Source: The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
“Calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“Calls ignored, texts unanswered, short replies, excuses made. All I can say is don't be surprised when you're not in my future.”
“Calls to ban Muslims from entering the US are offensive and unconstitutional.”
“Calls to gambling hotlines have increased dramatically since states legalized sports betting. For the first time, many of these callers are young people. The director of a problem gambling resource center on Long Island notes that teenagers and twenty-somethings have become the “number one demographic” for gambling hotlines.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Callum holds me tightly as we submerge under the water. Thin lines of air bubbles escape from his nose and mouth. He struggles to get back to the surface but to no avail—his heavy uniform and black boots weren’t meant for swimming.”
Source: Proud Pada
“Callum pulled a sgian dubh from out of his stocking and slammed it into the door-frame, where it lodged deep into the wood.
“They call it the black knife,” he said. “But it is true steel. That’ll keep the witches frae’ your door at least, Mistress Nansie! Dia leat!”
Nansie squeezed his hand.
“Dia leat! God with you too, my son!”
Callum crossed himself, touched the blade of the sgian dubh for luck and then padded softly down the stairs after the others.
“Tapadh leat mo mhàthair!” he called back quietly. “But somethin’ tells me there’s no God where we’re headed…”
He stepped out onto the moor, and plunged on into the darkness, until it swallowed him too.”
“Callum stepped up beside them. “Who we killing? Actually, don’t tell me, just point me to where we’re digging the grave.”
Source: Jason
“Callum takes a gigantic bite of his sandwich. I finally dig into mine and moan at the burst of flavor. It's the perfect bite of ham, malt vinegar mayo, fried egg, shoestring fries, and focaccia bread.”
Source: Simmer Down
“CALLUM:You're awfully chatty today”
Source: Simmer Down
“Callé porque tú sonreías
y mi silencio era mejor que tu tristeza.”
Source: La inercia del silencio
“Calló, sin embargo, llevado por su habitual prudencia, porque ante la multitud nada se enseña, sino que se pregonan tan sólo las insensateces que ella está dispuesta a escuchar.”
Source: Donde no te conozcan
“Calm and order can be just as dangerous to democracy as uneasiness and disorder.”
“Calm and quiet towns are the real paradises we are looking for in this chaotic universe!”
“Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.”
“Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Calm as the sea, sipping the storms,
Her heart is a flower, yet beats like stones.
She's polite and pleasing, but don’t dare to pluck,
She wraps karma in her sleeves, and in her bun, your luck.”
Source: Collywobbles
“Calm assertive energy is the energy you project to show your dog you are the Pack Leader. Assertive does not mean angry or aggressive. Calm-assertive means always compassionate, but quietly in control.”