C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.”
“Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.”
“Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.”
“Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.”
Source: The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
“Christine gave Louise a knowing look, but Louise did not know what the knowing in the look was meant to mean.”
Source: The Book of Reasonable Women
“Christine had gone into the city archives, found them in an old City of Edmonton telephone book. Her family was in a book. Her family and herself were defined by a street, an avenue, and a phone number. This line of type will rearrange itself into a story of ghosts in that place. A story of her ghost. Christine thought of herself as a child, with no idea of the world but all the ideas of the world. Maybe this was her dream self. She wasn't sure anymore.”
Source: Broke City
“Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between the person she once believed she could be and the person she has in fact become. The one does not acknowledge the other's existence. The women from war are like that [...]”
Source: This Mournable Body
“Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, said that in a meeting, when a woman speaks, 'many of the male board members start to withdraw physically, they start to look at their papers, to look at the floor...and you need to disrupt that.' she doesn't hesitate to call them out on it: 'When you're the chair, you say, "Somebody's talking. You should be listening.”
Source: That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together
“Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And what that sends to my generation is, one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [much] lack of experience you have.”
“Christine O'Donnell released a commercial in which she says, 'I'm not a witch.' That's pretty good, though not as effective as her opponent's slogan, 'I'm not Christine O'Donnell.'”
“Christine Todd Whitman had to resign as the head of the EPA. You know, when the governor of New Jersey decides the environment is hopeless, you gotta really think that one through.”
“Christlike attributes come into our lives as we exercise our agenncy righteously.”
“Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.”
“Christlike communications will help us to develop righteous relationships and ultimately to return to our heavenly home safely. May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.”
“Christlike love is a gift of the Spirit.”
“Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet”
“Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet in part because righteousness was always supposed to accompany it. Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.”
“Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet... So if love is to be our watchword, as it must be, them by the word of Him who is love personified, we must forsake transgression and any hint of advocacy for it in others.”
“Christlikeness finds its fullest expression in community, collaboration, and collectivity.”
Source: 3rd, 4th Nephi: a brief theological introduction
“Christlikeness is a journey, not a destination. The joy is in the journey.”
“Christlikeness is not produced by imitation, but by inhabitation.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“Christlikeness is your eventual destination, but your journey will last a lifetime.”
Source: Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose
“Christlikeness means to live and act as Christ lived and acted.”
Source: A Husband After God's Own Heart: 12 Things That Really Matter in Your Marriage
“Christlikeness requires, one single focused heart with unmixed motive. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God."Matt 5:8”
“Christmas, 1492….
Unfortunately, on Christmas morning 1492 Columbus' ship, the Santa María, ran aground on the northern coast of what is now Haiti. Not having any way to refloat her, the crew off-loaded the provisions and equipment from the ship before she broke up. For protection they then built a flimsy fortification on the beach, calling it “La Navidad.” With the consent of the local Indian Chief, Columbus left behind 39 men with orders to establish a settlement, and appointed Diego de Arana, a cousin of his mistress Beatriz, as the Governor.”
Source: The Exciting Story of Cuba: Understanding Cuba's Present by Knowing Its Past
“Christmas 2022 revealed the hazards of flying budget airlines.”
“Christmas 2022 was a time where a million passengers suffered flight delays and cancellations.”
“Christmas 2022 was a time where air travelers should have bought the optional travel insurance!”
“Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.”
Source: SAT Words from Literature - A Christmas Carol
“Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.”
“Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.”
“Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.”
“Christmas: An eternal star shines brightly in the sky;
leads us home. To us.”
Source: 24 Days Until Christmas: 24 Christmas Poems
“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.”
“Christmas and hope are bound inseparable. But because we can’t separate ourselves from our need to deny such a truth, we’ve bound ourselves to live without hope.”
“Christmas and New Year should not be a temporary dose of heroine to sedate people and have them consume more goods, go on vacations, or sit with family and friends at the dinner tables of triviality to boast presumed ‘achievements’ or share pathetic stories about ‘changing the world’.”
“Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.”
“Christmas and the New Year are actually two holidays, so there is a plural, which in the English language necessitates the use of the letter "S." Now, I suppose you could say "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" but you probably have sh*t to do.”
“Christmas and the others can end up making you sad, because you know you should be happy.”
Source: Love Letters to the Dead
“Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.”
“Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?”
“Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.”
Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
“Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the king on the cross. And because he did, there are no marks on my record. Just grace. His offer has no fine print. He didn't tell me, "Clean up before you come in." He offered, "Come in, and I'll clean you up." It's not my grip on him that matters but his grip on me. And his grip is sure. So is his presence in my life.”
“Christmas brings out the best in us, so let's let us treat each day like it is Christmas.”
“Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.”
Source: Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America
“Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.”
“Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.”
“Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.”
“Christmas cards ... are technically only junk mail from people you know.”
“Christmas carols? Oozy, squeezy, treacly middle-class propaganda crap!”
Source: Rab C.Nesbitt