C Quotes
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“Close both eyes to see with the other eye.”
“Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.”
“Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.”
Source: On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war
“Close counts in handguns as well, in my book," Remy argued.
"Your book is written in purple crayon. No one cares.”
Source: The Archer
“Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life”
“Close Dept. of Education, but don't dismantle public schools.”
“Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.”
“Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.”
“Close enough is not close enough.”
“Close enough to lose myself, far enough to set myself free.”
“Close friends, and good books. In the absence of the former, the latter is an alarmingly good substitute.”
Source: TREFETHEN'S INDEX CARDS: FORTY YEARS OF NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE, WORDS AND MATHEMATICS
“Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule”
“Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.”
“Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.”
Source: Revenge of the latchkey kids: an illustrated guide to surviving the 90s and beyond
“Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.”
“Close friendships are truly vestiges of our biological heritage.”
Source: Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
“Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because ‘friends react on one another’ and through loyalty to a friend one can be led into wrong-doing. This is unquestionably true. Moreover, if one is to love God, or to love humanity as a whole, one cannot give one’s preference to any individual person. This again is true, and it marks the point at which the humanistic and the religious attitude cease to be reconcilable. To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.”
Source: Reflections on Gandhi
“Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because “friends react on one another” and through loyalty to a friend one can be led into wrong-doing. This is unquestionably true. Moreover, if one is to love God, or to love humanity as a whole, one cannot give one's preference to any individual person. This again is true, and it marks the point at which the humanistic and the religious attitude cease to be reconcilable. To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. The autobiography leaves it uncertain whether Gandhi behaved in an inconsiderate way to his wife and children, but at any rate it makes clear that on three occasions he was willing to let his wife or a child die rather than administer the animal food prescribed by the doctor. It is true that the threatened death never actually occurred, and also that Gandhi — with, one gathers, a good deal of moral pressure in the opposite direction — always gave the patient the choice of staying alive at the price of committing a sin: still, if the decision had been solely his own, he would have forbidden the animal food, whatever the risks might be. There must, he says, be some limit to what we will do in order to remain alive, and the limit is well on this side of chicken broth. This attitude is perhaps a noble one, but, in the sense which — I think — most people would give to the word, it is inhuman. The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals. No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid. There is an obvious retort to this, but one should be wary about making it. In this yogi-ridden age, it is too readily assumed that “non-attachment” is not only better than a full acceptance of earthly life, but that the ordinary man only rejects it because it is too difficult: in other words, that the average human being is a failed saint. It is doubtful whether this is true. Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for “non-attachment” is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work. But it is not necessary here to argue whether the other-worldly or the humanistic ideal is “higher”. The point is that they are incompatible. One must choose between God and Man, and all “radicals” and “progressives”, from the mildest Liberal to the most extreme Anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.”
“Close girlfriends I don't have necessarily, as an actress. Perhaps there is a thing of competition there, you know, when you're doing the same things, and you're the same age. I could be with younger actors, but woman of my age probably - there is and there isn't, one doesn't like to think of it, but I think there is a sense of competition. Which is good, also.”
“Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.”
“Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.”
“close… it holds all these fears, but all this softness, in the most vulnerable place we ever know”
“Close loopholes, close the special interest Washington carve outs and that means more incomes subject to taxation so we`re going to lower the rates on our businesses and be fair.”
“Close my eyes, watch the universe and above the ground, I'm watching all peoples running to build their lifestyle.
Fuck! So we don't need only food on our table. So are craving for lifestyle.
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! We're good in caves man, I think i born in wrong era.”
“Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas...during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.”
“Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.”
“Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.”
Source: The summit of the years
“Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled “crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.”
“close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere”
“Close spacing is not crowding when light, moisture, and timing are working for you.”
Source: Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests
“Close the chapter of each day with hope in your heart. Though today may have tested your strength, tomorrow opens as a new page, ready to be written with grace.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Close the chapter of each day with hope in your heart. Though today may have tested your strength, tomorrow opens as a new page waiting to be written better.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.”
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“Close the door by leaving." Close the mouth by dying ... ("Ferme la porte en partant." - Ferme la bouche en mourant ...)”
“Close the door to the external chaos, begin self
reflection to rejuvenate your mind and soul. - Vinita Singh”
Source: Soul Works - The Minds Journal Collection
“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”
“Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to alternate them.”
“Close the gap between yourself and your spirit--the person you know you can be. Let your choices reflect the person you want to become, not just the person you think you are.”
Source: Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
“Close the language-door,
and open the love-window”
“Close the playand keep the store open nights.”
“Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones...You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you cannot keep unsound financial institutions operating simply because they provide jobs.”
“Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.”
“Close thy Byron ; open thy Goethe .”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books
“Close to 80 percent of all terrorist activity in Samaria was directed and financed either by Hizbullah or the Iranians. Iran continues to increase its involvement in terror attacks inside Israel, particularly through a small but radical minority of Israeli Arabs which Iran supports and directs.”
“Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.”
“Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.”
“Close to the Edge by Yes. Such a fun tune to play on bass.”
“Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention.”
“Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.”