C Quotes
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“Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself. We say, "It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.”
Source: As A Man Thinketh And The Path Of Prosperity
“Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.”
“Calmness outside your mind gives calmness to your mind; calmness in your mind gives calmness to everything outside your mind!”
“Calmness stems from a peaceful center.”
Source: Brilliant Words to Grow By: A Devotional Celebrating the Duality of Life
“Calmness through osmosis. It can be achieved by petting a cat, and your body absorbs the purring and integrates that healing frequency.”
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“Calms appear, when Storms are past;
Love will have his Hour at last:
Nature is my kindly Care;
Mars destroys, and I repair;
Take me, take me, while you may,
Venus comes not ev'ry Day.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Calon Arang, nasibmu yang malang
demi cinta lalu menghukum seluruh negeri
tapi anak sendiri mengkhianati,
demi cinta menjadi geram
demi cinta dimusnahkan oleh pendeta”
Source: Calon arang: Kisah perempuan korban patriarki : prosa lirik
“Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big? Lysistrata: Very big. Calonice: (interested) Is it stout too? Lysistrata: (smiling) Yes, indeed -- both big and stout. Calonice: What? And the women still haven't come? Lysistrata: It's not what you suppose; they'd come soon enough for that.”
“Calor, hace mucho calor. Se está abrasando.
Hay fuego en sus párpados que se niegan a cerrarse por completo, en la hilera de besos que Marc le ha depositado por todo el cuerpo hace un momento, en su vientre que espera ansioso una recompensa a su paciencia; y en su entrada, que desesperadamente trata de engullir la carne.”
Source: A partir de ahora
“Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.”
Source: Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel
“Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.”
“Caltech honored me -- they named an asteroid after me. There's only two of them up there with names. One of them is Walter Cronkite. The other is Tommy Lasorda.”
“Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.”
Source: Discovery - A Memoir
“Calum claimed her mouth in a searing kiss, drowning out everything else. He backed her against the wall on the side of the pub, and pinned her wrists up against the brick. All the raw intensity from their heated connection exploded, powering the kiss. So hot and passionate, she could barely breathe.”
Source: Knights of Stone: Calum
“Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.”
“Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.”
“Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.”
“Calumnies are answered best with silence.”
“CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)
“Calumny... gives [Harry] a spiritual purity in the sense that it scours away any outward show, any wish to live by the impression he makes on others. It gives him a lonely independence, so that he is able to act from his own depth. As he goes on to fulfill "his true destiny", which as far as he knows is his death, he is able to walk, hidden from view, past the woman he loves, without speaking, without looking back. This ability to act alone contrasts him with Voldemort, who needs others. That need is apparent in Voldemort's possession of Quirrell.
Voldemort's shallowness is apparent in the way Pettigrew has to do his work for him and then has to carry him to his rebirthing. Above all, it is in his need to be encircled by Death Eaters. Yet Voldemort is not truly in relationship with any of these people. He is connected to them only by magic, manipulation and threats. To be truly in relation with others, he would need, like Harry, to be capable of acting from his own depth. He would need to be able to act WITHOUT them. Voldemort, who wants to be independent, cannot truly act alone. ... Voldemort lives outwardly, in his domination of others; Harry lives inwardly, in the purity of his own being.”
Source: Baptizing Harry Potter: A Christian Reading of J.K. Rowling
“Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.”
“Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.”
Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion
“Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.”
“Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.”
“Calumny is only the noise of madmen.”
“Calumny is the offspring of Envy.”
“Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.”
“Calvary not merely made possible the salvation of those for whom Christ died; it ensured that they would be brought to faith and their salvation made actual.”
“Calvaryites are sometimes a little too heavily oriented to the written Word.”
“Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.”
“Calvin [Trillin] was much more of a mover and a shaker. That's all I'm saying. I was a "weenie." That was another term back then.”
“Calvin and Hobbes are chatting.
HOBBES: Aren't you supposed to be doing homework now?
CALVIN: I quit doing homework. Homework is bad for my self-esteem.
HOBBES: It is?
CALVIN: Sure! It sends the message that I don't know enough. All that emphasis on right answers makes me feel bad when I get them wrong.
CALVIN: So instead of trying to learn, I'm just concentrating on liking myself the way I am.
HOBBES: Your self-esteem is enhanced by remaining an ignoramus?
CALVIN: Please! Let's call it 'informationally impaired.”
Source: The Days Are Just Packed
“Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.”
“Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.”
“CALVIN: Hey, I got some mail! It's a Valentine card.
HOBBES: From Susie Derkins!
CALVIN: It says "Please be my Valentine."
HOBBES: You're Susie's Valentine!
CALVIN: I'm not her Valentine just because I got this in the mail, am I? Does the Post Master General know about this?
HOBBES: Calvin and Susie, sitting in a tree-ee! Kay-eye-ess-ess-eye-en-gee!
CALVIN: I don't have the KISS her, do I?! Is that what Valentines do??! Oh, gross!
HOBBES: First comes lo-ove, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage!
CALVIN: This can't be happening! I need a lawyer! She can't make me be her Valentine!
HOBBES: Here she comes! Here comes Susie!
SUSIE: Hi, Calvin.
CALVIN: Get away from me! I'm not your Valentine! Take your card back! Eww! Girls! YECCHH!
SUSIE: That card wasn't for YOU, you Moron. Didn't you read the back of the envelope?
CALVIN: "Calvin, please give this to Hobbes." HOBBES?!
HOBBES: Me? Really? Hot dog! Smooch City, here I come!”
Source: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
“Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what?”
“Calvin Klein and Donna Karan were the big American names at that point in time, Helmut [Lung] was the cool kid on the block and you had Marc Jacobs and John Galliano who starting the revival of the old fashion houses.”
“Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name?”
“CALVIN:
Look, Hobbes, I got a magic carpet.
HOBBES:
What's so magic about it?
CALVIN:
Magic carpets FLY! You can ride them.
HOBBES:
Isn't this the rug from the hallway?
CALVIN:
Up, Rug!
Up! Up!
CALVIN:
Hey, Look!
It works!
Ok, rug, warp factor five.
HOBBES:
Is this legal?
Do you have your registration and proof of insurance?”
Source: Yukon Ho!
“Calvin: «Mom says death is as natural as birth, and it's all part of the life cycle.
She says we don't really understand it, but there are many things we don't understand, and we just have to do the best we can with the knowledge we have.
I guess that makes sense.
...But don't you go anywhere.»
Hobbes: «Don't worry.»”
Source: Something Under the Bed is Drooling
“CALVIN: Our country was founded a very long time ago, roughly around 200 B.C.
TEACHER: (Glowering): 200 B.C.?
CALVIN: Before Calvin.
CALVIN: (Now sitting in the corner, wearing a dunce cap) That's what's IMPORTANT!”
Source: The Days Are Just Packed
“CALVIN'S DAD:
What story would you like tonight? We can read anything except...
CALVIN, INTERRUPTING HIM:
"Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie"!
CALVIN'S DAD, IN ANGUISH:
NO! No Hamster Huey tonight! We've read that book a million times!
CALVIN:
I want Hamster Huey!
CALVIN'S DAD, Nearly Pleading:
Look, you KNOW how the story goes. You've memorized the whole thing! It's the same story every day!
CALVIN, Screaming:
I want Hamster Huey!
CALVIN, LYING IN BED WITH EYES OF WONDERMENT:
Wow, the story was different THAT time!
HOBBES, LYING IN BED NEXT TO CALVIN, ALSO WITH EYES OF WONDERMENT:
Do you think the townsfolk will ever find Hamster Huey's head?”
Source: The Days Are Just Packed
“Calvin's Mom confronts him as he stands at the open front door, going to school:
Calvin, are you going to take that stuffed tiger to school again?
Calvin: Sure.
Calvin's Mom: Don't the kids make fun of you?
Calvin: Tommy Chestnutt did once, and now nobody does.
Calvin's Mom: Why? What happened to Tommy Chestnutt ?
Calvin: Hobbes ate him!
Hobbes [The stuffed tiger]: Ugh!
He needed a bath, too.”
Source: Calvin & Hobbes
“Calvin's Mom walks in on him. On the carpet he's been smashing rocks with a baseball bat. Mom freaks out.
MOM: What on earth would make you DO something like that?
CALVIN: Poor genetic material?
Mom slaps her head with one hand; while her other hand expresses an almost uncontrollable rage.
Now he's in his room, evidently in time out.
CALVIN: Bad guess.”
Source: The Days Are Just Packed
“Calvin's theory of predestination has one implication which should be explicitly mentioned here, since it has found its most vigorous revival in Nazi ideology: the principle of the basic inequality of men. For Calvin there are two kinds of people—those who are saved and those who are destined to eternal damnation. Since this fate is determined before they are born and without their being able to change it by anything they do or do not do in their lives, the equality of mankind is denied in principle. Men are created unequal. This principle implies also that there is no solidarity between men, since the one factor which is the strongest basis for human solidarity is denied: the equality of man's fate. The Calvinists quite naïvely thought that they were the chosen ones and that all others were those whom God had condemned to damnation. It is obvious that this belief represented psychologically a deep contempt and hatred for other human beings—as a matter of fact, the same hatred with which they had endowed God. While modern thought has led to an increasing assertion of the equality of men, the Calvinists' principle has never been completely mute. The doctrine that men are basically unequal according to their racial background is confirmation of the same principle with a different rationalization. The psychological implications are the same.”
Source: Escape from Freedom
“Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
“Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! ...Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.”