C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Can angels lie spine to spine?
If not, how they must envy us humans”
Source: Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
“Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.”
Source: Commentaries on Living
“Can any American child grow up to be president? Probably not, however fond we might be of the idea. Perhaps a better question is: what well-adjusted tyke would want the job?”
Source: The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power
“Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.”
“Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!”
“Can any good come out of Galilee? No, I’m not a Catholic. I describe myself as a member of the Church of England, which, I suppose, is an inoffensive way of saying that you don’t believe in anything very much.”
“Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?”
Source: The Republic
“Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.”
“Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?”
“Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.”
“Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?”
“Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.”
“Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?”
Source: The Conscience of a Conservative
“Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.”
“Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and
brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a period of not quite fifty-three years?”
Source: The Histories of Polybius: Translated from the Text of F. Hultsch
“Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?”
Source: The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings
“Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?”
“Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?”
Source: Confessions
“Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?”
Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays
“Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.”
“Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?”
Source: Selected writings and speeches of Alexander Hamilton
“Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.”
Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)
“Can any work in a prison camp merge with your dreams, absorb your whole soul, rob you of sleep? It can—but only the work you do to escape!”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
“Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.”
“Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?”
“Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.”
Source: Ginger-Snaps
“Can anyone actually find a replacement for a lost loved one?
Isn't there a difference between things and human beings?”
“Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.”
Source: The Man in the High Castle
“Can anyone be a father without beginning to be one? Yes, one who did not begin his existence. What begins to exist begins to be a father - God the Father did not begin at all. He is Father in the true sense, because He is not a son as well. Just as the Son is son in the true sense, because He is not a father as well. In our case, the word 'father' cannot be truly appropriate, because we must be fathers and sons.”
“Can anyone be arrogant when he stands beside the cross?”
“Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?”
“Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part and parcel of nature and we cannot do without them. Sometimes evil is even necessary to run this evil nature.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Can anyone receive Jesus into his heart and not die?”
“Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.”
Source: After the Fall
“Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?”
“Can anything be called an ‘achievement’ if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving?”
“Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil.”
“Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?”
Source: Apology for Raymond Sebond
“Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?”
Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy
“Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?”
“Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?”
“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.”
Source: Prose Works of Christina Rossetti
“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”
“Can anything compare to the sight of the first yellow violets blooming along a woodland path? These most fragile of plants are yet hardy enough to bloom when nights are still frosty and snow still lingers in the ravines.”
“Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.”
“Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.”
Source: Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels
“Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay the infinitely possible? Out there ... lay six billion ears, all the people in the world available for contact and mystery and insult, unable to resist the beckoning of one small and villainous forefinger.”
Source: Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren