C Quotes
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“Clem caught her eye across the table. It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.”
Source: Mrs. Miniver
“Clem rubbed at her face with her cuff and gave a quick, rueful smile. 'It's just so sad. It's the umpteenth time I've read it, and I will always think it will have a different ending. But it never does.”
“Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.”
“Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.”
“Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.”
“Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch.
[Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque
Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]”
“Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.”
“Clement held her hand for a moment; knowing that after that moment the darkness would begin.”
Source: The Green Knight
“Clement, usually a fluent speaker in any situation, could hear his voice assuming a pompous and affected tone, not unlike that which many actors use (wrongly in Clement's view) when playing Polonius.”
Source: The Green Knight
“Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.”
“Clementi, Sonata in Fa Diesis Minore, Opera 25, Numero 5" disse Katherine, e lui annuì. Una volta le aveva spiegato che quella sonata evocava in lui l'immagine di un uomo perduto in mezzo al mare mentre la sua innamorata lo aspetta sulla riva.”
Source: The Piano Tuner
“Clementine had never encountered a germ in Purgatory before. Germs usually had very short and uneventful lives, so they usually just went straight to Heaven. The fact that most of them went straight to Heaven surprised a lot of earthlings, as earthlings viewed germs as fundamentally bad beings that crept into their bodies, snuggled up and gave them the snuffles, infections, rashes, coughs, upset tummies and diarrhoea. However, germs almost always acted on instinct and never with any malice.”
Source: Titus the Germ's Journey through Purgatory
“Clementine was welcomed back to her old school by the headmistress, Beatrice Harris, who had imbued her with ideas of female independence. Clementine never forgot her encouragement and example.”
Source: Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
“Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.
Joel: I know.
Clementine: What do we do?
Joel: Enjoy it.”
“Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
“Clemo, Nonini, Jua Cali started the Genge, it hit but they didn't have a clear plan. Now it's dead and buried with Mejja as the only survivor who even left Genge and is doing Kalpop now.”
“Clemo, Nonini, Jua Cali wakianzisha Genge, ilishika but hawakuwa na clear plan. Now it's dead and burried with Mejja as the only survivor mwenye hata aliachana na Genge anafanya Kalpop sasa.”
“Clench clench these strong teeth in this strong mouth. My mouth. Of my body. In my house. My mouth? Chapped lips swollen and bloody? Dream dreaming wide and thunder? My mouth! My God! This is me speaking. Not mouthing. Not typing and twitching. Not writing a suicide note the length of a novel that will never be finished. I hear voices now but I know they are not the voices of fathers or lovers, or mothers or angels or demons, but the sounds of my own private wars echoing the battles of women before me and near me. No wonder I do not make people comfortable. I am a mirror. I have far too many things to say. (p. 237-238)”
Source: Mouthing The Words
“Clenching my fists, his subsequent snore emphasises my suspicions. He has been sleeping on the job. I put my hands on my hips and glide over to him. I have one intent in mind. Picking up the book next to his elbow, I slam it down on the table. There are definitely some perks to being able to manipulate objects. Adam’s reaction is priceless. “W…w….what? W…where? W…why?” He stammers, blinking frantically. One hand flies to his heart, which he clutches dramatically and he raises his other to his forehead, wiping his brow. When he realises who has disturbed him and what I have done, he scowls at me. “Why did you do that?” He snaps, rubbing his eyes. He yawns at the end, meaning that I definitely can’t take him seriously. “I was enjoying that dream.” At hearing his answer, I roll my eyes. Part of me is tempted to interrogate him, to find what he was dreaming about exactly. The other rational and sensible part wins, meaning that I thrust the book in his direction, winding him considerably. He throws me a sharp glare, which ends in a grimace. The book juts sharply into his ribs. “You should be reading NOT sleeping!” I retort, making sure that the book digs harder into his chest. I give it one last push. “So get going.”
Source: Damned
“Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried.”
Source: Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“Cleo’s always been able to see through me. When we lived together, I used to watch her paint for hours and think, How does she always see things so clearly? She knew what colors to start with and where, and none of it made sense to me until, suddenly, it all looked exactly right.”
Source: Happy Place
“Cleo was like those little bluebirds of happiness in Cinderella, flitting around until Natalie had been transformed into a princess. A fraudulent one, to be sure, but a princess nonetheless.
The silk dress from her mother's closet had been transformed into a couture masterpiece by the sartorial skills of Cleo's talented aunt. The sheath now fit like an extremely flattering glove. Its color, and the bright handwork accents, echoed the colors of the precious vase---jade green, turquoise, marigold, and fuchsia with veins of cobalt blue. She paired it with the gold-heeled sandals, the vintage watch, and a gold snake belt borrowed from Cleo.”
Source: The Lost and Found Bookshop
“Cleopatra earned a second back-handed tribute: In her wake, a golden age of women dawned in Rome. High-born wives and sisters suddenly enjoyed a role in public life. They interceded with ambassadors, counseled husbands, traveled abroad, commissioned temples and sculptures. They become more visible in art and in society. They joined Cleopatra in the Forum. No Roman would ever attain the exalted status or enjoy the unprecedented privileges granted Livia and Octavia, which they owed to a foreigner, to whom they served as counterweight. Livia compiled a fat portfolio of properties, one that would include lands in Egypt and palm groves in Judea. Octavia would go down in history as the un-Cleopatra, supremely modest, prudent, and pious.”
Source: Cleopatra: A Life
“Cleopatra Metrodora (CA, 200-400 AD Greek) Her treatise entitled "On the Diseases and Cures of Women" earned her the distinction of becoming the first female medical scholar.”
Source: Anonymous Is a Woman: A Global Chronicle of Gender Inequality
“CLEOPATRA SPEAKS:
I conquered Caesar
yet was slain by Rome
Last true Queen of Egypt
It is not Antony
I speak from cold lips
I whisper, Ô mighty Egypt
Ô mighty Nile
into your glory, I give my spirit”
Source: Icons Speak
“Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.”
“CLEOPATRA TO THE ASP
The bright mirror I braved: the devil in it
Loved me like my soul, my soul:
Now that I seek myself in a serpent
My smile is fatal.
Nile moves in me; my thighs splay
Into the squalled Mediterranean;
My brain hides in that Abyssinia
Lost armies foundered towards.
Desert and river unwrinkle again.
Seeming to bring them the waters that make drunk
Caesar, Pompey, Antony I drank.
Now let the snake reign.
A half-deity out of Capricorn,
This rigid Augustus mounts
With his sword virginal indeed; and has shorn
Summarily the moon-horned river
From my bed. May the moon
Ruin him with virginity! Drink me, now, whole
With coiled Egypt's past; then from my delta
Swim like a fish toward Rome.”
Source: Lupercal
“Cleopatra wanted everyone to understand--and remember--that she had his blessing in claiming her place as pharaoh.”
Source: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen
“CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA: I'll set a bourne how far to be belov'd. ANTONY: Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.”
“Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.”
Source: Reformation Thought: An Introduction
“CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.”
“Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.”
“Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.”
“Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.”
“Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.”
“Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.”
“Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.”
Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929
“Cleveland fans are awesome.”
“Cleveland is a really hard place, it's a very creative place, it feeds you creatively, but it's a very hard place to make a living creatively.”
“Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.”
“Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.”
“Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.”
“Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun shining.”
“Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!”
“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.”
“Clever and civilized men will not stay home
Leave your homeland and explore foreign fields
Go out! You shall find replacement for those you have left
Give your all, the sweetness of life will be tasted after the struggle
I have seen that standing water stagnates
If it flows, it is pure, if it does not, it will become murky
If the lion doesn’t leave his den, he will not eat
If the arrow does not leave the bow, it will not strike
If the sun stands still in its orbit
Man will tire of it
Gold dust merely soil before excavated
Aloewood is just ordinary wood if in the forest
Travel by Imam Syafii”
Source: Negeri 5 Menara
“Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.”