C Quotes
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“Come si fa a dare valore a una cosa che può finire in qualsiasi momento, una cosa così fragile? Si dà valore a ciò che ha forza, e la vita non ne ha; a ciò che è indistruttibile, e la vita non lo è. Tant'è vero che può arrivare qualcuno a chiederti di sacrificarla, la tua vita, per qualcosa che ha più forza. La patria, per esempio.
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Nessuno ama l'intero genere umano. Non si può piangere sulle esistenze interrotte di miliardi di individui a partire da sei milioni di anni fa. Non era forse questo il patto originario: che ogni esistenza sulla Terra dovesse interrompersi, prima o poi? Sentire con le proprie orecchie il nitrito sgomento di un cavallo strazia più del pensiero di un uomo sconosciuto, morto perché di morti è fatta la Storia. Non esiste pietà universale, solo l'impietosirsi davanti al destino di un singolo essere umano.”
Source: At the Wolf's Table
“Come si fa ad amare quello che non si è detestato almeno per un giorno?”
Source: La Vie, après
“Come si può non vedere nel tempo lungo che ci finirà e finisce con il perderci ci perderà? Non intuire né indovinare la sua trama, la sua macchinazione e la sua danza in cerchio, non fiutare il suo malanimo o respirare il suo squallore, non captare il suo torbido agguato e la sua lentissima e illanguidente attesa e la conseguente impazienza che chissà per quanti anni avrà dovuto tenere a freno? Come posso non conoscere oggi il tuo volto domani, quello che già esiste o trama sotto la faccia che mostri o sotto la maschera che indossi, e che mi mostrerai soltanto quando non me lo aspetto?”
Source: Fever and Spear
“Come si spiega un bacio su cui ti sei soffermato a fantasticare così tante volte da non riuscire più a tenere il conto? Come descrivi il rumore dei tuoi pensieri che, come in tilt, non smettono di rimbalzare da un angolo all’altro della tua testa, piccole molle alticce perse in un respiro lieve? Un bacio si vive, non si racconta.”
Source: Dimmi che non hai paura
“Come, sir, come,
I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.
Look, here I have you, thus I let you go,
And give you to the gods.”
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“Come, sit beside me. We won't speak, instead, we will let the unspoken create us. In the quiet of night, we will let our hearts whisper to each other, feeling the deepest intimacy. We will mingle in the rhythm of our breaths, sensing light in the dark night. Remaining unspoken, our emotions will speak of our depths. Entering the mystical, we will drift into the land of light that will make the music of harmony; eternally, it will surpass the 'you' and 'me,' and create 'us' .”
“Come, sit by me. Let us be eloquent in silence.”
“Come sit, dear," the old woman said. "We were just discussing kelpies and changelings."
I turned a delightfully amused face at Ronan, hoping to see him embarrassed to be caught in a world of fantasy, but his face was impassive, completely unperturbed. Those were the hardest boys to ignore: the ones that weren't concerned with your opinion of them, not afraid to be caught listening to fairytales.”
Source: All the Tales We Tell
“Come sit in the living room", she said. "I'm afraid it's a mess. I can't seem to find the time or energy to clean it up. It's very embarrassing when parishioners stop by.”
Source: The Disappearance of Darcie Malone
“Come, sit next to me.
As you will, so will be.
As long as you are next to me,
Even your silence is tranquility.
I know it hurts like the dickens!
Yet every wound delivers valiance.
At your every whim I am your servant.
But to every wound you are your treatment.
Your trouble is my trouble.
Be not disheartened if the world frowns.
Clouds are nothing but herald of sunshine.
Pain of today is tomorrow's crown.
So I say, come, sit next to me.
As you will, so will be.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.”
“Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything.”
“Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,
Th' indifferent judge between the high and low;
With shield of proof shield me from out the prease
Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw.”
Source: Astrophel And Stella
“Come sleep, oh sleep, the certain knot of peace.”
Source: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.”
“Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.”
“Come, son of my daughter, child of my heart," Grandmother said, gesturing to her lap. Thorn needed no further encouragement to crawl into her loving hold. Stories always began thus.”
Source: Golden Lotus: A Little Mermaid Retelling
“Come, speak to me of times gone by.
Remind me of our carefree youth.
Recall with me those nights we sang
and laughed and thought we knew the truth.
Come, speak to my of times gone by.
Remind me of your dancing feet.
Recall with me those days we knew
the world was ours, and life was sweet.”
“Come spend the night inside my sugar walls.”
“Come spring, the trees give us gifts. Green bits that helicopter down from above. When they land, Joey and I follow, retrieve them and bend the blades until they touch, releasing the glue inside so we can stick them onto our noses and call each other Pinocchio. This beats anything in my yard. Gathering buds that die and fall was fine once. But chasing helicopters and having a green nose is better.”
Source: American Girl: Memories That Made Me
“Come straight to me if you are straight”
“Come summer rain and winter snow,
My love is there wherever you go;
Over mountains high and oceans deep,
My love will guide you awake or asleep.”
Source: Magelica's Voyage
“Come swiftly
and rub aromatic myrrh on her breasts:
the hollow cave around her heart.”
“Come swish around my pretty punk
And keep me dancing still
That I may stay a sober man
Although I drink my fill.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
“Come take a look at one of the oldest human urges- religion. After all, the only thing that makes us screwier is sex.”
“Come take a walk in the woods and see what awaits you there...”
“Come thaw my frozen heart, my little arctic kitten.”
Unable to resist, Aria jumped in and picked up the next line. “No chance, my yeti man, I’d rather be frostbitten.”
“Let me be your snowman. Come live in my igloo.”
“I’d rather freeze to death than hibernate with you.”
Source: Through the Ever Night
“Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.”
“Come the next election, in a two-party or two-party-plus system, a very small swing amongst the voters, a slight shift of the median voter on the normal distribution curve, may lead to a complete change of government, whereupon a new set of persons takes over, and a new set of ministers accepts collective responsibility for policies which, in some instances, completely overturn the decisions of the former administration. Yet all is due to just a very small swing. Majoritarian politics, which some claim offers stable government, is actually part of a system which perpetuates instability, especially if viewed from a long-term perspective.”
Source: From Majority Rule to Inclusive Politics
“Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them.”
“Come then, let us do something!” said Davie.
“Come away,” rejoined Donal. “What shall we do first?”
“I don't know: you must tell me, sir.”
“What would you like best to do—I mean if you might do what you pleased?”
Davie thought a little, then said:
“I should like to write a book.”
“What kind of a book?”
“A beautiful story.”
“Isn’t it just as well to read such a book? Why should you want to write one?”
“Because then I should have it go just as I wanted it! I am always—almost always—disappointed with the thing that comes next. But if I wrote it myself, then I shouldn’t get tired of it; it would be what pleased me, and not what pleased somebody else.”
“Well,” said Donal, after thinking for a moment, “suppose you begin to write a book!”
“Oh, that will be fun!—much better than learning verbs and nouns!”
“But the verbs and nouns are just the things that go to make a story—with not a few adjectives and adverbs, and a host of conjunctions; and, if it be a very moving story, a good many interjections! These all you have got to put together with good choice, or the story will not be one you would care to read.—Perhaps you had better not begin till I see whether you know enough about those verbs and nouns to do the thing decently.”
Source: Donal Grant George MacDonald
“Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.”
Source: The Republic
“Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.”
“Come, thou tortoise!”
“Come through for others and they will come through for you.”
Source: Being the best
“Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.”
Source: Hearts in Atlantis
“Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit”
“Come to California...and bathe in fire red sunlight!”
“Come to California...and breathe the toxic smoke!”
“Come to California...and burn!”
“Come to California...and enjoy the orange daylight!”
“Come to Christ.”
“Come to Christ just as you are, He will make you complete.”
“Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.”
Source: Dead Aim
“Come to earth to taste our sadness, he whose glories knew no end;
by his life he brings us gladness, our Redeemer, Shepherd, Friend.
Leaving riches without number, born within a cattle stall;
this the everlasting wonder, Christ was born the Lord of all.”
“Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.”
“Come to finish me off, Sweetheart?”
Source: The Hunger Games
“Come to Florida...and lose everything!”
“Come to God for your healing. Don't hesitate. God, who is so full of goodness and supply, is always willing to bless, preserve, heal and restore you.”
Source: Healing Promises