C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?”
Source: Mule
“Can’t go on
It’s not worth trying
When a journey ends
In a lover’s dying.”
Source: Shipwreck Girl
“Can’t Handle Freedom (The Sonnet)
Whole human is the first human,
All else are but wannabe.
Designation human says it all,
Yet why do you chase terminology!
Even when you broke free from religion,
You could not handle that utter freedom!
Like a rightful new descendant of divisionists,
You chained the word "human" with an "ism".
It is like you can't handle being free,
You have to stay enslaved by one ism or another.
They used to keep the world apart with religions,
Today the same is done by new-age dividers.
Human, human, human - that is all we ever are.
Not humanist, not socialist, just carers of each other.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Can't have a care when you unzip & bare the rare hieroglyphs from the archeological digs unearthed from those undiscovered inner layers.”
“Can't I just say it's magic? - Charlie Blue”
Source: Geoffrey Thorne's Dreamnasium, Vol. 1
“Can't it be stopped?" said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't digging into her.
Maybe it can be stopped at the beginning," Maddy said. "If someone sees what's happening and is brave enough to reverse the direction."
Reverse the direction?"
Yes, turn it around."
How would you do that?"
You'd do something good," said Maddy. "Or at least you'd keep yourself from doing something bad."
But how could you?" said Lina. "When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?"
You wouldn't want to," said Maddy. "That's what makes it hard. you do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.”
Source: The People of Sparks
“Can’t look back, or my good memories will be tainted.”
Source: Applicant
“Can't make a choice without meeting its consequence.”
Source: A Tempest of Tea
“Can't make a life and death decision when you are fighting off what I call choice-vertigo”
“Can't make an egg without breaking a few metaphors.”
Source: The Starless Sea
“Can’t means you won’t or you don’t know how.”
“Can't nobody make us do a thang once we git hard against it. And if anybody don't like that, you don't have to explain a thang to'm. All you got to say is, 'I'm Charlotte Simmons, and I don't hold with thangs like 'at.' And they'll respect you for that.”
Source: I Am Charlotte Simmons
“Can’t play it safe when nowhere safe anymore”
Source: A Brief History of Seven Killings
“Can't say as when I've enjoyed an evening more. As thanks, can I have this dance?”
Source: West Winds of Wyoming
“Can’t say my Uttarpara ancestral home isn’t my homeland,
I know unidentified bodies, their eyes plucked out, float by in the Ganga.
Can’t say my aunt’s Ahiritola isn’t my homeland,
I know abducted girls are bound and gagged in Sonagachi nearby.
Can’t say my uncle’s at Panihati isn’t my homeland,
I know who was killed, and where, in broad daylight.
Can’t say my adolescent Konnagar isn’t my homeland,
I know who was sent to cut whose throat.
Can’t say my youth’s Calcutta isn’t my homeland,
I know who threw bombs, set fire on buses, trams.
Can’t say West Bengal isn’t my homeland,
I’ve the right to be tortured to death in its lock-ups,
I’ve the right to starve and have rickets in its tea gardens,
I’ve the right to hang myself at its handloom mills,
I’ve the right to become bones buried by its party lumpen,
I’ve the right to have my mouth taped, silenced,
I’ve the right to hear the leaders sprout gibberish, abuse,
I’ve the right to a heart attack on its streets blocked by protestors,
Can’t say Bengali isn’t my homeland.”
Source: ছোটোলোকের কবিতা
“Can’t sleep?” SIRS had asked.
“No,” Cavalo said roughly.
“Ah. I often wonder what it’s like.”
“What,” Cavalo asked, pressing the heels of his hands to his eyes.
“Sleeping,” SIRS had said. “Being able to dream. I’m told it’s a wondrous thing.”
“Except when they’re nightmares. Not so wondrous when death is all you see.”
SIRS’s eyes had flashed. “I would think that would be even better,” he’d said. “Because you wake up, your heart pounding in your chest, and there would be a moment of terror before clarity sets in. The relief one must feel at realizing it was just a dream seems like it would be the greatest sensation in the world. How I wish I could wake from a nightmare.”
Source: Crisped + Sere
“Can't steal the moon, can't keep the stars, but we're fortunate enough to know them anyways. Isn't that us?"
"Yeah," Remus whispers. "Yeah, that's us.”
Source: Crimson Rivers
“Can’t stop taking my eyes off you. Can’t stop thinking about you. Can’t stop wanting
you. What are you doing to me?”
Source: A Tale of Love and Curses
“Can’t take no pride in that flagpole
and you can stick your fucking STARBUCKS
up your tight middle-
class
arseholes.”
“Can’t tell what was liked
and where; but
something was just liked unwittingly.”
Source: शून्य मुटुको धड्कनभित्र [Shoonya Mutuku Dhadkanbhitra]
“Can’t trust no one else to do what you won’t do for yourself.”
Source: The Desert Spear
“can't unscramble the egg no matter your wisdom and determination”
“Can't we all simmer down a bit? Let the teachers teach, the parents parent, and the kids do the learning. Our children will be fine, just as we were. They will figure it out, just as we did. They don't need every advantage skewed their way and every discomfort fluffed with pillows. I bet they don't even need sandwich dolphins. I am a product of bologna, red Kool-Aid, and home perms, and I turned out okay.”
Source: For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
“Can't we do anything about it?"
- "No!"
- "Then I can't see the sense in panicking", said Twoflower calmly”
Source: The Color of Magic
“Can’t we do better with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software?”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“Can't we just agree to disagree?" she asked.
"It's a little bigger than that," said Gabe as he got into bed.
"Meaning?"
"Meaning, it's making me question your character.”
Source: Food Person
“Can’t we just go in a dark corner like normal people who need to hide from highly trained evil killers?” she said.
“What, and let everyone imagine all the delightful things two jinn can do in the dark?”
“You’re unbelievable.”
“Thank you.”
Source: Exquisite Captive
“Can't we look to Mary Magdalene as simply an early church leader whose rightful place next to Christ should have been acknowledged? There are no Scriptures to place her anywhere but right next to Jesus. Even a cursory reading of the Bible shows her to be a godly woman responding wholeheartedly to a message that must have appealed to her greatly. But the fastest way to rob a woman of her power is to make her a sexual suspect. It certainly has worked all these years for MM.”
Source: Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl
“Can't win me by the first round, try the second, I got nothing to lose.”
“Can't you clerk in a store?'
'No.'
'Can't you be a waitress?'
'Would you be anything like you're suggesting to me? Then why, if you're too good, is it all right for me?'
'It's not a question of superiority, Dora. Come on, be a telephone operator and get paid while you work. Or how about ushering in a theater? I have it. You'll get a job in a flower shop. They always do.'
He looked at her so sharply that she knew she must make some answer, and she began to speak as if her words came from another mind, another mouth. 'I am beyond this plane of animal existence. I'm made of different stuff. I lived all this ages ago and I'm through with it for good.”
“Can't you ever leave murder alone, woman? Even murder in retrospect?”
Source: Sleeping Murder
“Can't you for once, just this once, stop over thinking, and just…feel?”
Source: It's Not Just Semantics
“Can’t you get into your head, my learned friend, that you’ve taken a liking to me and feel that I matter because I’m a kind of mirror for you, because something in me responds to you and understands you? Actually, all human beings ought to be such mirrors for one another, responding and corresponding to each other in this way, but the thing is that cranks like you are oddities. You easily get lead astray, bewitched into thinking that you can no longer see or read anything in the eyes of other people, that there is nothing there that concerns you any more. And when a crank of your sort suddenly discovers a face again that really looks at him, in which he senses something akin to a response and an affinity, it naturally fills him with joy.”
Source: Steppenwolf
“Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow.
"You don't need them. You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.”
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Can’t you imagine? Haven’t you told her about the place enough?” He tried the handle again, as if that could change anything. Meggie had covered the whole door with quotations. They looked to him now like magic spells written on the white paint in childish hand. Take me to another world! Go on! I know you can do it. My father has shown me how. Odd that your heart didn’t simply stop when it hurt so much.”
“Can't you just hide us in shadows or something?'
'Sure, because a giant black cloud moving down the hallway isn't going to look more suspicious than a couple sneaking around.' He shoots me a look that keeps me from countering.
Point taken.
Not that we're a couple.
Not that I wouldn't climb the man like a tree if presented with the right set of circumstances.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Can’t you just trust in our love, without asking me to prove it every single second?”
“Can’t you make yourself likeable? Can’t you even try?” Something shifted in Tavi then. She was always so flippant, trailing sarcasm behind her like a duchess trailing furs. But not this time. Hugo had pierced her armor and blood was dripping from the wound. “Try for whom, Hugo?” she repeated, her voice raw. “For the rich boys who get to go to the Sorbonne even though they’re too stupid to solve a simple quadratic equation? For the viscount I was seated next to at a dinner who tried to put his hand up my skirt through all five courses? For the smug society ladies who look me up and down and purse their lips and say no, I won’t do for their sons because my chin is too pointed, my nose is too large, I talk too much about numbers?” “Tavi …” Isabelle whispered. She went to her, tried to put an arm around her, but Tavi shook her off. “I wanted books. I wanted maths and science. I wanted an education,” Tavi said, her eyes bright with emotion. “I got corsets and gowns and high-heeled slippers instead. It made me sad, Hugo. And then it made me angry. So no, I can’t make myself likeable. I’ve tried. Over and over. It doesn’t work. If I don’t like who I am, why should you?”
Source: Stepsister
“Can't you see? Before you knew the truth, we were happy. What's the god in ferreting out the truth all that time? It's always unpleasant."
"Is it only lies that are Pleasant?"
"Usually. That's why people tell them. To make life bearable.”
“Can’t you see that the courage to risk, to dare, to toss that gold coin up in the air over and over again, win or lose, is what makes humans human? They are fragile, doomed creatures, blinder than worms yet braver than the gods”
Source: Stepsister
“Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.”
Source: Under the Volcano
“Can’t you speed up?” she asked. “My mother drives faster than you.”
Source: Catch .22
“Can’t you tell from the hair and the cheekbones? Humans don’t grow that beautiful. Not outside of Denmark, anyway.”
Source: Marine Biology
“Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?”
Source: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
“Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?”
Source: On Music and Musicians
“Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?”
“Can the "word" be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.”
Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries
“Can the act of narrative writing alter the writer’s mental alignment and will an honest chronicle and extended effort at seeking answers to a vexatious series of pending personal questions eventually place the author on an even keel? What other motive, good or evil, could possibly cause an essayist to write in such a torrid manner? With each line that I write, I beg to stop. The lines just keep tumbling out. Is there no end to this nightmarish experience of examination and reexamination? Is there no relief in sight to this modest attempt to form my storyline into an intelligible quest? Many days of writing go nowhere; blank pages replicate the blandness of life, whereas other days I sense progress towards an indiscernible and undefinable goal. If I write long enough, what will I finally discover gazing back at me?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Can the beautiful be sad? Is beauty inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning? Or else is the beautiful object the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival after death, that immortality is possible?”
Source: Black Sun
“Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? Can the loving wife in Heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in Hell? I tell.”