C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“College seems like a pretty expensive way to become an alcoholic.”
“College softball each year reaches new levels of interest.”
“College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind and persistent person herself, but a steady diet of Antonioni films and an introductory course on existentialism had awakened her to the fact that she wanted more.”
Source: City on Fire
“College students’ bizarre actions are incomprehensible until scrutinized under the lens that they are simply defying their mortality. A person learns how to live by contemplating death, because when a person faces death, it strips everything superfluous away, revealing the sterling qualities of life. University students newly freed from parental restraints desire to ascertain the essence of their life, but they lack the maturity and life experiences meaningfully to contemplate the weighty subjects of life and death. Realizing their immaturity and resultant angst, collegiate students act recklessly in order to loudly proclaim that they do not care if fate demands that they die will, when in fact they are terrified of both living and dying.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.”
“College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.”
“College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.”
“College was a blast. My three years of college were the best years of my life.”
“College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.”
“College was a wonderful time - except, of course, when it was trying to teach you things.”
“College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name-he'd laugh to know that it's a science scholarship, when I can barely do math! I also fund a nursing scholarship at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota, in the name of my mother, who was a nurse.”
“College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.”
Source: The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
“College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.”
“College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.”
“College was pivotal for me. It broadened my horizons, taught me to think and question, and introduced me to many things - such as art and classical music - that had not previously been part of my life. I went to college thinking that I might teach history in high school or that I might seek a career in the retail industry, probably working for a department store, something I had done during the holidays while in high school. I came out of college with plans to do something that had never crossed my mind four years earlier.”
“College was really good for me. It's where I did my growing up, learning how to live on my own and to be myself. That really helped. I've eased my way into everything since then, so it doesn't feel too crazy. It's just about being the same person, whether good things come my way or bad things come my way, and to enjoy the opportunities I have.”
“College was the greatest four years of my life.”
“College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.”
Source: The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection
“College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.”
Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel
“College. I didn't even realize it was carefree at the time, but looking back, that was the most carefree time ever.”
“College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.”
Source: M: Writings ’67–’72
“Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.”
“Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.”
Source: Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More
“Colleges are a unique space in our culture. They're a temporary constellation of humans, like a workplace. And the rules about sexual assault and harassment in a workplace are narrow rules. They're stricter than what's considered criminal on a city street. By this logic, the same rules should exist at universities too.”
“Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.”
Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career
“Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.”
“Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another.”
“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”
“Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free expression of ideas, especially important and newsworthy ones. Second, colleges have the duty to protect speakers from being silenced by others. Century has failed miserably on both counts.”
“Colleges need learning, faith, and freedom. Each reinforces the others, each makes the others possible. For what are they without each other?”
“Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics! They have to be gung ho athletes and sensitive artists, studious nerds and gregarious social networkers, future rulers of the universe and selfless altruists.”
“Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is a leisure activity, neither more nor less admirable than any other, and colleges should not pretend otherwise.”
Source: The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
“Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.”
Source: The Teeth Of The Tiger
“Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.”
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Collies, coffee and, murder most foul!”
Source: Barking up the Wrong Bakery
“Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich”
Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“Collingswood frowned at the clouds, like she did not like what they wrote.”
Source: Kraken
“Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.”
“Collision avoidance systems are the next big radio frequency (RF) toxin to hit the USA general population as they become standard safety equipment in most new cars.”
“Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self”
“Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.”
“Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don't make any sense.”
“Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm.”
“Colocando em português simples: quanto mais alguém for ignorante em algo, mais se acha inteligente. Ou seja, a inteligência consegue ver a ignorância, mas a ignorância é muito ignorante para ver sua própria ignorância.”
Source: Ciência para não cientistas: como ser mais racional em um mundo cada vez mais irracional, vol. 1 (Bolsonarismo) (Inteligência Artificial, Democracia, e Pensamento Crítico)
“Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.”
“Colombia estaba preparada para afrontar la demanda de Nicaragua. Se había estudiado cuidadosamente el tema desde todos los ángulos durante muchos años y había una noción clara de las fortalezas y debilidades jurídicas de nuestra posición.”
Source: COLOMBIA EN EL LABERINTO DEL CARIBE
“Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.”