C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“C’est un samedi semblable à bien d’autres, pourtant unique. Sur la capitale, le ciel est dégagé, laissant au soleil levant le soin de chauffer les façades en pierre de taille. Une brume de chaleur s’étend au-dessus de la Seine, les pêcheurs matinaux se rafraîchissent le visage avec l’eau du fleuve. Sous le pont Alexandre III, quelques chanceux moulinent leur fil avec une carpe ou une grémille suffisamment naïve pour se piquer la lèvre sur leur hameçon. Ceux-là feront la fierté de leur femme et ils s’imaginent rentrer hardiment dans leur appartement, accueillis comme de réels héros pour avoir attrapé une proie de trois cents grammes tout au plus, qui nourrirait à peine un chaton. Mais le sourire de ces hommes se contemple avec beauté, car eux aussi seront bientôt chassés, mais ils ne s’en doutent pas. L’innocence des jours heureux se dessine sur leur visage.”
Source: Deux frères (La Troisième clef)
“C'est une chose admirable, que tous les grands hommes ont toujours du caprice, quelque petit grain de folie mêlé à leur science.”
Source: Le Médecin Malgré Lui
“C'est une histoire d'amour comme toutes mes autres
un autobus écrit Spécial
avec personne dedans”
Source: Chauffer le dehors
“C'est une maladie d'être optimiste? Non, c'est une maladie de l'être trop. L'excès devient pathologique.”
Source: Le Sumo qui ne pouvait pas grossir
“c'est une source de joie que de voir les anciens travailler dans leur jardin ou regarder par la fenètre! C'est si bon de voir qu'ils sont vivants et qu'ils vont bien!”
“C’est une triste chose à penser, mais on ne saurait douter que l’esprit dure plus longtemps que la beauté. Cela explique pourquoi nous prenons tant de peine à nous instruire. Nous avons besoin, pour la lutte effrayante de la vie, de quelque chose qui demeure, et nous nous emplissons l’esprit de ruines et de faits, dans l’espérance niaise de garder notre place.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“c'est une vérité très certaine que, lorsqu'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de discerner les plus vraies opinions, nous devons suivre les plus probables
partie 3, para 3)”
Source: Discours de la méthode: suivi des Méditations métaphysiques
“C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cette personnalité : quelqu'un qui ne supporte pas la contradiction, qui doit tout le temps avoir la main sur tout, qui décide, surveille, punit, et qui, jamais ne partage le pouvoir.”
Source: Triste tigre
“C'est vraiment différent de pleurer en plein jour, c'est un autre niveau de tristesse.”
“C'est vraiment honteux d'aller et venir sur la terre et de ne presque rien savoir d'elle... Pas même quelques noms.”
“C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli...”
“C'est à René Cassin que nous devons le terme de droits « universels » et non « internationaux » comme le proposaient nos amis anglo-saxons. Car là est bien l'enjeu au sortir de la seconde guerre mondiale : s'émanciper des menaces que le totalitarisme a fait peser sur l'humanité. Pour s'en émanciper, il faut obtenir que les États membres de l'ONU s'engagent à respecter ces droits universels. C'est une manière de déjouer l'argument de pleine souveraineté qu'un État peut faire valoir alors qu'il se livre à des crimes contre l'humanité sur son sol. Ce fut le cas d'Hitler qui s'estimait maître chez lui et autorisé à provoquer un génocide.”
Source: Indignez-vous !
“C’est ça aussi, la vie. La vie, c’est qu’un jour je quitterai Pablo, ou Pablo me quittera. Je lui préférai quelqu’un ou il en aura marre de moi, et ce sera triste mais ce ne sera pas tragique. Et puis la tristesse passera, elle aussi, comme le bonheur, comme la vie, comme les souvenirs qu’on oublie pour moins souffrir ou qu’on mélange avec ceux des autres ou avec ses mensonges.”
Source: Nothing Serious
“C’est ça la passion, ma belle. C’est vertigineux. Et parfois, ça laisse des traces.”
Source: Les Collisions
“C’est ça, le lycée : la course à qui fera le plus de mal aux autres. À qui s’autodétruira le mieux. Être cruel, c’est tellement rock’n’roll. S’avouer malheureux, par contre... Moche, pas vrai ?”
Source: Les Collisions
“C'est ça, être adulte. Être adulte, c'est être remplacée.”
Source: Nothing Serious
“C'est étrange, l'amitié. Alors qu'en amour, on parle d'amour, entre vrais amis on ne parle pas d'amitié. L'amitié, on la fait sans la nommer ni la commenter.”
Source: La Part de l'autre
“C’est étrange, se disait-il, que l’on aime les gens, qu’ils disparaissent, et que l’on continue à les aimer, mais dans sa tête, pour soi, sans le leur dire. Comme si le fait de ne plus être en contact n’enlevait rien à leur présence.”
Source: Comment trouver l'amour à cinquante ans quand on est parisienne (et autres questions capitales) -
“C'etait un jour de fete.
Mais l'haine se repete.
Laissez pas la peur dominer le coeur,
Si on veut que l'amour soit vainqueur”
Source: L'Amante de Victor Hugo
“C gives the programmer what the programmer wants; few restrictions, few complaints... C++ maintains the original spirit of C, that the programmer not the language is in charge.”
Source: C++: The Complete Reference
“C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.”
“C’ in Russian is pronounced like your ‘S’, so first letter in CIA stands for ‘sneaky.”
Source: Russian Holiday
“C'insegnano un sacco di cose inutili, tipo piegare le camicie o le guerre napoleoniche, e cose vitali come usare la bussola mai.”
Source: Più lontana della luna
“C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient program or a bloody mess.”
Source: The Practice of Programming
“C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things.”
“C is for coffee. Coffee would always be there for her.”
Source: Girl on a Plane
“C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.”
“C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.”
“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”
“C is the assembly language of Tcl.”
“C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But when the moment came to act upon these convictions, he discovered that his knowledge of self was faulty. Had his lack of killer instinct been a momentary lapse, first time jitters? Or was there more to it than that? If not the fearless, remorseless man he supposed himself to be, then just who was he?”
Source: Patches of Grey
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.”
“C'mon, Amory. Your romance is over
You don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole trouble”
Source: This Side of Paradise
“C’mon and hose me down
‘cause I’m only pretend-wet
from getting smart-raped”
Source: NightMARE Crush
“C’mon, Barney,” said Lucy. “Can’t you give me something for the paper? A body in the water is big news.”
Lowering his voice so only she could hear, he said, “It’s Old Dan. At least I think it is. It’s hard to tell.”
“The body’s decomposed?” she asked.
“You could say that.”
“His face is gone?” Lucy knew that was common when a body had been in the water. Crabs and fish usually started with the bare skin of the face and hands.
“More than his face,” said Barney. “His whole head’s gone.”
Source: St. Patrick's Day Murder
“C’mon good girl, be bad.”
Source: Three Daves
“C'mon. I'll show you."
"Thou speakest strange!" Pearl said.
"So do thou!" I said.
"Thee!"
"Thou!" I said.”
Source: The Heroines
“C'mon, let's take all this despair and change it into hope!”
“C'mon. Sit down."
"Why are we on the roof?"
"Why? When we're talkin' about stuff like this, it's better to do it somewhere high up and open".”
Source: Wind Breaker 8
“C’mon, sweetness. You don’t have to run. I won’t hurt you.”
A pause, as though he was contemplating.
“Much.” he amended, punctuating this last with a high-pitched tittering laugh that seemed to settle at the base of her neck like a giant insect, making her grind her teeth.”
Source: Woken
“C'mon. We can turn it into a fun game - What's Scarier, The Basement Or The Attic?”
Source: The Haunting of Blackwood House
“C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.”
“C.S. Lewis in his second letter to me at Oxford, asked how it was that I, as a product of a materialistic universe, was not at home there. 'Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Or if they did, would that fact itself not strongly suggest that they had not always been, or would not always be, purely aquatic creatures? Then, if we complain of time and take such joy in the seemingly timeless moment, what does that suggest? It suggests that we have not always been or will not always be purely temporal creatures. It suggests that we were created for eternity. Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed by it--how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We aren't adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home.”
Source: A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph
“C. S. Lewis once observed that grief is not a state but a process. It’s a river that runs through a long valley, and at every turn a new landscape is revealed, and yet somehow it repeats and repeats. Periods of grief and suffering often shatter our basic assumptions about who we are and how life works. We tend to assume that the world is benevolent, that life is controllable, that things are supposed to make sense, that we are basically good people who deserve good things. Suffering and loss can blast all that to smithereens.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new”
“C: What do you get when a giant sneezes?
Out of the way. - Marigold”
“C'è anche chi dice: «Il tè è la bellezza formale della vita di un tempo». «E' il culmine delle arti giapponesi», pensano altri. Qualcuno, poi, ha scritto: «E' la religione della bellezza, nella quale si mira al vuoto attraverso la tenace pratica dell'otemae». «Un concentrato di saggezza esistenziale, incentrata sulle stagioni». «Uno stile zen»... Il tè ammette qualsiasi interpretazione. E allora anche alla mia visione corrisponde un mondo del tè. Forse il tè è un riflesso di ciascuno: ci sono tanti tè quante persone.”
Source: Every Day a Good Day: Fifteen lessons I learned about happiness from Japanese tea culture
“C’è chi pensa al post-umano, cioè ad un dialogo tra l’uomo e la macchina in cui non sarà più l’uomo a governare la macchina, ma rischiamo che sia la macchina con la sua capacità a governare l’uomo. È una provocazione vivere in un mondo nel quale Facebook mi dice chi sono, Google mi dice cosa penso, Amazon mi dice cosa voglio.”
“C'è chi pensa che l'amore sia la fine della strada, e che se si è abbastanza fortunati da trovarlo ci si ferma lì. Altri dicono che è come un burrone nel quale si precipita. Ma chiunque abbia vissuto almeno un po' sa che muta con il passare dei giorni, e secondo l'energia che gli si dedica, lo si conserva o ci si aggrappa, oppure lo si perde, ma a volte capita che non sia nemmeno mai stato lì, sin dall'inizio."( Questo bacio vada al mondo intero)”
“C’è da pensare che se mettessimo nella stessa stanza le menti (umane) più brillanti del pianeta arriverebbero alle medesime conclusioni di una superintelligenza, sebbene in tempi estremamente più lunghi.”
Source: Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera