C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.”
“Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open journals of closed memories... tears of laughter and joy of pain... schmaltz of diametric morning.”
“Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a cosmetic. You smile. No, it is not fatal.”
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“Cold, harsh laughter, like knives being sharpened.”
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
“Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, with the kindness of letting you go gentle into the long night after such a burden of pain and misery.”
Source: Prince of Fools
“Cold he lies, as cold as stone,
With his clotted curls about his face:
The comeliest corpse in all the world
And worthy of a queen’s embrace.”
“Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil. But the evil is, when men go on in that languid, doubting way, content to doubt, proud of their doubts, morbidly glad to talk about them, liking the romantic gloom of twilight, without the manliness to say,--I must and will know the truth. That did not John. Brethren, John appealed to Christ.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series
“Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.”
“Cold homes are one of the leading causes of deaths in winter… A climate policy reversing the price reduction due to fracking will drive energy prices back up. People will be less able to heat their homes, and the consequent death rate will go back up.”
“Cold in abundance, darkness everywhere.”
“Cold indeed, and labor lost:
Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!”
Source: Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew
“Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?”
“Cold is better, because you can put on layers to keep warm. Heat will kill you.”
“Cold is hot, if you love it; hot is cold, if you hate it!”
“Cold is our element and winter's air
Brings voices as of lions coming down.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume
“Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.”
Source: Titus Alone
“Cold metal walks across my forehead,
spiders search for my heart.
It is a light that goes out in my mouth.”
“Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.”
“Cold nights meant long lines. At a rusty tank marked K-Oil. Buying kerosene for your heater. Fumes would fill your house. Scenting all inside. You kept yourself warm. Then headed to school smelling poor.”
Source: Some Books Are Not For Sale
“cold nights without streetlights
walking to the sea perhaps”
Source: Falling Awake
“Cold November nights. It feels as if summer never happened. The beauty of setting sun, moon, and stars. Sailing to nowhere, but finding happiness in our togetherness. Never forget what we are. Stranded hearts." Fidelis O. Mkparu (2016), author of 'Love's Affliction' (and soon to be published 'Tears before Exaltation')”
“Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .”
Source: Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks
“Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.”
Source: Heaven On Earth
“Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.”
Source: Heaven On Earth
“Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.”
“Cold silence has a tendency to
atrophy any
sense of compassion
between supposed lovers”
“Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they'll leave you, sure. There's no return to what was and no way back. There's just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting.”
“Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.”
“Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Cold stabilization has these benefits, however: it gets rid of the crystals, which is nice in a cosmetic sense. It reduces the acidity slightly and softens the wine. The latter benefit is the chief one.”
Source: From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine
“Cold start is a hard start.”
“Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!”
“Cold sweat, like the river streams from Mount Sabalan, builds up on his wrinkled forehead. His palms heat up faster than an Ahvaz summer’s day. His ears, his fingertips oscillate like the Thousand Daf festival in Kurdistan’s Sanandaj, the sound of a thousand Iranian tambourines.”
Source: Tajrish
“Cold up there, huh?” Yeah, it kind of was. “Stupid down there, huh?” Seth’s brows flew up. “For one in such a precarious position, you sure don’t know how to talk yourself out of it.” “That’s because it’s hard to reason with idiots.” I gave him a cheeky grin. “Why bother?”
Source: Pure
“Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.”
“cold walls
no need to whisper
I hear you”
“Cold was easier to bear when you'd never been warm.”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.”
“Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.”
“Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Cold, hungry, scared as hell inside, but too damn brave to admit it.”
“Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,” I said. “I love it when you talk medical to me,” he said. He stood, and pulled me up with him, and did not let go of my hand until we reached the stairs.”
“Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood”
“Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.”
“COLD. Healthier than heat.”
Source: Dictionary of Accepted Ideas
“Cold?" Ravus echoed. He took her arm and rubbed it between his hands, watching them as though they were betraying him. "Better?" He asked warily. His skin felt hot, even through the cloth of her shirt, his touch was both soothing and electric. She leaned into him without thinking. His thighs parted, rough black cloth scratching against her jeans as she moved between his long legs. His eyes half-lidded as he pushed himself off the desk, their bodies sliding together, his hands still holding hers. Then, suddenly, he froze.”
“Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition