C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?”
“Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?”
“Can the CEO of a pharmaceutical company prioritize opioid addiction as a top concern if they are making a profit from opioids?”
Source: What the U.S. Healthcare System Doesn't Want You to Know, Why, and How You Can Do Something About It
“Can the child who is Dell; be the outer emoodiment of man's quest to save himself? To cure himself?...Or, to "be" himself?”
“Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Well, I've been afraid of changing 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you get bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too”
“Can the darkness condemn the light?”
“Can the devil finally have his first taste of heaven…”
Source: Mercurio
“Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be so absurd in the encyclopedic subjects but in mathematics it doesn't make any sense since things follow from each other and, in principle, whoever knows the bases knows everything. All of the results of a mathematical theorem are in the axioms of mathematics in embryonic form, aren't they?”
Source: A diary on information theory
“Can the ego put itself to death? For many-headed is this surrounding Hydra; one head cut off, two more appear—unless the right caustic is applied to the mutilated stump. The original departure into the land of trials represented only the beginning of the long and really perilous path of initiatory conquests and moments of illumination. Dragons have now to be slain and surprising barriers passed—again, again, and again. Meanwhile there will be a multitude of preliminary victories, unretainable ecstasies, and momentary glimpses of the wonderful land.”
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
“Can The Ethiopian Change His Skin?'
We answer, No. But all will admit that what the Ethiopian cannot do for himself God could readily do for him... How could all men be brought to perfection and which color of skin was the original? The answer is now provided. God can change the Ethiopian's skin in his own due time.”
Source: Zion's Watch Tower: Complete 1904
“Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?”
“Can the fish love the fisherman?
[Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]”
“Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.”
Source: If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
“Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird”
“Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?”
“Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“Can the level of wealth enjoyed by members of capitalist culture (remembering that it is 25 times greater, on average, than that enjoyed by citizens of two centures ago) be attained by all but a very few? And if it can be attained, what is the cost for everything else that we must sacrifice?”
“Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”
“Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?”
Source: Sixty stories
“Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me.”
“Can the magic of flight ever be carried by words? I think not.”
“Can the man who stays at home all day without seeing the roses and the nightingales ever see the world?”
Source: Puslu Kıtalar Atlası
“Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?”
“Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?”
“Can the perpetrator of a "senseless" crime use transcendence as a defense?”
“Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!”
Source: Speak
“Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with an eloquence Shakespeare could only envy. Ignorant people don't understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government checks with their names on them.”
“Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.”
Source: Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Can the sin of one or a few cause suffering for many? The answer, of course, is yes, for no sin is isolated in the life of the sinner. It spreads like poison gas into every available crevice.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Can the sky ever forget
his moon?”
“Can the splitting of representations explain multiplicity? Not at all, for two reasons.20 First, a split is into two, not many. The splitting of self and object representations manifest polarity: self-object, good-bad, male-female, friend-foe, and so on, whereas alters generally don't (though they may).
Second, hosts and alters are intentional subjects or agents, entities capable of uttering "I." Indeed, one may profitably regard alter as short for alter ego, literally "other I." A given "I" has intentional objects that are its respective self and object representations. In other words, a split representation, even of the self, is an object of thought, not a thinker, not a subject or agent or "I.”
Source: Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V and Beyond
“Can the spring really come this year?'
Then she laughed—such a dreadful little laugh, just as one might laugh in the face of death, I think, and said 'Observe my egotism. Because I, Gertrude Oliver, have lost a friend, it is incredible that the spring can come as usual. The spring does not fail because of the million agonies of others—but for mine—oh, can the universe go on?'
'Don't feel bitter with yourself, dear,' mother said gently. 'It is a very natural thing to feel as if things couldn't go on just the same when some great blow has changed the world for us. We all feel like that.”
Source: Rilla of Ingleside: A Tale of Youth and War in the Glen
“Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the level of the murderer, and treating him as he treated others? The forfeiture of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict it on another, even when backed by legal process.”
“Can the sun find its match in anything but the moon? Can the heavens lose interest in the earth?" Hades pulled away from her and stroked her cheek. "Can death exist without life?”
Source: Destroyer of Light
“Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?”
Source: Profiles Of The Future
“Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie visual) simulacrum: in short, a picture, of which the preconditions for feasibility are forgetfulness and a misunderstanding of processes.”
“Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?
When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.”
Source: How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Master Dogen's Shobogenzo
“Can the word "love" be thrown around so casually like that?”
Source: Almond
“Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so many contradictory qualities?”
“Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?”
“Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?”
Source: The Opinions of Sir Robert Peel, Expressed in Parliament and in Public
“Can there be any creation without a creator?”
“Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel
“Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?”
Source: The Uncommon Reader
“Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?”
Source: Life of Pi - CANCELED
“Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?”
“Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest?”
“Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death.”
Source: The Bells of Bruges
“Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?”
Source: The Street of Crocodiles
“Can there be art without the human in it? Maybe that is what I wish to capture: beast as seen by beast, tree as seen by tree. I jest, but not really.”
Source: North Woods