C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Can a hermaphrodite be a cross-dresser?”
“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.”
Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
“Can a man be mistrusted for being too honest?”
“Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.”
Source: The Octavius of Marcus Minucius Felix
“Can a man claim more than one hometown?”
Source: Hope Never Dies
“Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.”
“Can a man grow whole when his foundation is built on shame and fantasy?”
Source: 20 Years Of Inner War: How porn defeated my porn addiction
“Can a man of perception respect himself at all?”
Source: Notes from Underground (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)
“Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?”
“Can a man's life be complete without his Maker?”
“Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?”
“That is the only time a man can be brave,”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.”
Source: The Tomb
“Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?”
Source: The Poems of Basil Bunting
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“Can a mother commit a greater sin than ignoring her intuitions?”
Source: When the Moon is Low
“Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work?”
“Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.”
“Can a nation really suffer? Has a nation eyes, hands, senses, affections and passions? If you prick it, can it bleed? Obviously not. If it is defeated in war, loses a province, or even forfeits its independence, still it cannot experience pain, sadness or any other kind of misery, for it has no body, no mind, and no feelings whatsoever. In truth, it is just a metaphor.”
Source: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?”
Source: If I lived my life again
“Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content without the permission of the manufacturers of the content themselves? .. This is an astonishing development in the course of our understanding of what we call the copyright bargain, the relationship between authors' rights, publishers' leverages and consumers' needs.”
“Can a person crave to destroy himself and at the same time wish to transmute himself into a fuller being? Is destruction of a central part of us necessary in order to transform ourselves? How do perceptive people fend off their destructive impulses, through insensibility or with greatness of mind? How can an ordinary person such as me, deficient in natural talent and ignorant in the ways of the world, blunt the self-doubt and the fear that nips at my heels? How does a vegetative character such as me express the vivacity of life while counterbalancing the immutable sorrows that accompany our struggles to glean meaning in life? How does anyone function rationally knowing that his or her life will ruefully end with death?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Can a person live without hope? Must a middle-aged man such as me who underwent a bevy of loss and failure aim to summon the interior moxie to watch the sunrise on each new day while wearing a faint smile of hope? Must I stoically resolve to endure bearing the weighty load of previous personal debacles? I gain nothing by wallowing in self-denunciation. Guilt and shame exact a severe tithe. I cannot lead a worthy life by tumbling into alcoholic numbness or a drug-induced pit.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?”
Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger
“Can a person, then, do any more than love? Have thought and language any higher expression for loving than always to give thanks? Not at all, it has a lower, a humbler expression. Even the person who is always willing to give thanks nevertheless loves according to his own perfection, and a person can truly love God only when he loves him according to his own imperfection. Which love is this? It is the love that is born of repentance, which is more beautiful than any other love, for in it you love God. It is more faithful and more fervent than all other love, for in repentance it is God who loves you.”
Source: Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses
“Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it to illuminate our cities, guide our airlines through the night skies and take the most accurate measurements. What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electrons as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?”
“Can a poet no be brave? To write the heart's desires and present them, raw and bloody, to an uncaring audience is more terrifying than war!”
Source: Valedor
“Can a president who’s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?”
“Can a selfie see what's inside a person's heart?”
“Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?”
Source: The Impact of Science On Society
“Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?”
“Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?”
Source: The Crock of Gold
“Can a wolfe be beautiful?”
“Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.”
“Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.”
“Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! Then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! He payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire?”
“Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?”
Source: The Way of Kings
“Can a woodchuck chuck wood? Because the question is, "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if," so you haven't established or proved without any shadow of a doubt that a woodchuck could chuck wood. Frankly, I believe that they chew wood. I don't think they can chuck wood at all! I take offense to the whole chucking question.”
“Can accidentally eating halal food make you Muslim? Yes, the same way drinking a cosmo can make you gay.”
“Can adults who believe in fairy tales teach their kids how to effectively analyze reality?”
“Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?”
“Can all you worries add a single moment to your life? Of course not!”
“Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.”
“Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.”
“Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the lives and reputations? I am as far as anyone can be from denying the power of ideas in history, but the suggestion that a philosophy (as Relativism is often called) has perverted millions and debased daily life is on the face of it absurd. No idea working alone has ever demoralized society, and there have been plenty of ideas simpler and more exciting than Relativism.”
Source: The Culture We Deserve
“Can an idea always be a good idea? Yes it can, for example the idea of 'spending your free time in nature' is always a good idea!”
“Can an unnamed thing be said to exist? Yes, but we can’t speak of it even in hushed voices. We can only dance around the invisible enemy. We can only evade.”
Source: The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language
“Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." In the course of a single year Stalin ascribed to [Vladimir] Lenin two directly opposed conceptions of the fundamental question of socialism. The first version represents the real tradition of the party; the second took shape in Stalin's mind only after the death of Lenin, in the course of the struggle against "Trotskyism".”