C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?”
“Can life get even more interesting when existing, even embracing - the polarity, opposition, oppositeness, contrariety, contradictoriness, paradox and ambivalence of it all?”
“Can liquid be considered a proper dessert? Oui, in the rare instance that it's something as exquisite as Angelina's signature chocolat "l'Africain." So obscenely thick and outrageously rich, it's even better than when, as a kid, I'd sip Swiss Miss hot cocoa and savor those mini-marshmallows after sledding on an icy winter day.
Angelina's hot chocolate is so smooth and velvety, each sip sensually coats your tongue and teeth. It's both refined and indulgent; it's a simple recipe but a sophisticated experience. It arrives on a silver tray and is served perfectly warm- not scalding hot- with a side of whipped cream sculpted into a decorative puff. It's the perfect way to warm up on a rainy spring day. A decadent way to get your day's chocolate quota. It's hot chocolate worth the price of airfare to Paris.”
Source: Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light
“Can lives that are merely constant be happy?
If you asked Tom how he felt, he would have counted these out: wood, wind, waves. Not happy perhaps, but content.
Ride Me Like a Wave (Stars anthology)”
“Can love and peace live in the same heart? Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice; love without peace, or peace without love.”
Source: Three popular French comedies
“Can love and respect function independently? Well, try loving someone you do not respect. Or can you really disrespect someone you dearly love?”
Source: Being a Spectator of Yourself: Poet as a consequence of my life experiences
“Can love be controll'd by advice?”
Source: The Beggar's Opera: A Comic Opera
“Can love be eternal?
That is the question.
Can it be like spring,
or a bird in the sky?
To young kids, according,
all life bound is by it,
and things like the sky,
or the mountains, or sea.
If you ask the old folk,
if they still with others talk,
even if their hearts hold winter,
love is there, they still are with her.
Loving is to be.
Dreams are all that’s left, agree.”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“Can love make you sacrifice that heavily and completely? Sacrifice something you love for something you might love more?”
Source: Pieces in the Cinders, Season 1
“Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible. The moss on our time-worn mansion brightens into beauty; and the good old pastor, who once dwelt here, renewed his prime and regained his boyhood in the genial breeze of his ninetieth spring. Alas for the worn and heavy soul, if, whether in youth or age, it has outlived its privilege of springtime sprightliness!”
Source: Tales and sketches
“Can man direct his course?”
“Can man, the finite and sinful one, cooperate with God, the Infinite and Holy One? Yes, he can, precisely because God Himself has become man, become body, and here (in the liturgy), again and again, he comes through his body to us who live in the body.”
Source: Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy
“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
“Can mortal prayers ensure immortal happiness?”
Source: The Recess
“Can my true and higher self be subconsciously plotting the glory of my life's road without my knowing?”
“Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?”
Source: My life
“Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy? Can we do it, all that, while mitigating and adapting to climate change? And can we do all that in 21 years time? That's when these things are going to start hitting in a really big way. We need to act now. We need investment in science and technology, and all the other ways of treating very seriously these major problems. 2030 is not very far away”
“Can no one stop her?
Zeus could, or your father, if they wished to. But why would they? Monsters are a boon to gods. Imagine all the prayers.”
“Can no prayers pierce thee?
SHYLOCK: No, none that thou hast wit enough to make.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice
“Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?”
“Can nothing change what is about to happen”
Source: MIDNIGHT (Warriors: The New Prophecy, Book 1)
“Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.”
Source: Bridget Jones’s Diary
“Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?”
Source: The God Delusion
“Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.”
“Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ... have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.”
“Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.”
“Can one be a saint without God?
(...)
- Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me . . . What interests me is - being a man.”
Source: The Plague
“Can one be bored in a world so wonderful?”
Source: Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther
“Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.”
Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness beings with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of - indolence, or action. Be ignited or be gone.”
“Can one consider controversy without falling into it?”
Source: Man's World Woman's Place
“Can one desire too much of a good thing?”
Source: As You Like it
“Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)
“Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter endowed with will...Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.”
“Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as love. Love is an abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing to life, increasing his/her/its aliveness. It is a process, self-renewing and self increasing.”
“Can one, in such a self-portrait, omit something which affected one's whole being and which one has thought of every day of one's life? 'Every day' exaggerates, but not much. I do not need to 'recall' Hartley, she is here. She is my end and my beginning, she is alpha and omega.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.”
“Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?”
Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA
“Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?”
Source: Marcel Duchamp, respirateur
“Can one man's madness be another's real life?”
Source: An Itinerant House, and Other Ghost Stories
“Can one mistake really destroy a lifetime together?”
Source: Champion: A Legend Novel
“Can one move an empire as if it were a house?”
“Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?”
Source: Let the Record Speak
“Can one regret a thing that, however unwise, was beautiful?”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so. In the end, I find this is another way of putting women in a kind of singularity, a ghetto, which is not what I want. I want them to be singular and universal at the same time.”
“Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?”
“Can one still see it?" Emilia asked eagerly.
"Not anymore, mistress. But it can still be felt. You see, all the scholars and scientists believed until then that the harmony of the world was ensured by the stars, which were fixed and ageless. But my star, my supernova? It proved otherwise. It meant that the Heavens can shift and alter. And if that is true... then the world itself can change.”
Source: By Any Other Name
“Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply.”