C Quotes
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“Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?”
“Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?”
“Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Sumner
“Can there be no sadder thing to make me cry,
With the exception of losing more days with you,
That when you looked at me and said goodbye,
I had déjà vu.”
Source: Can I Tell You Something?
“Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?”
Source: Nativity. Poems
“Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?”
“Can these foods [low-fat, vitamin-enriched, etc] even be called "healthy"? Perhaps we should think about it this way: If you cut a batch of pharmaceutical-grade cocaine with chai, you could say with some degree of honesty that it is "healthier," "less addictive," and "now with chai!" But would you say it's "good for you"?”
Source: The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
“Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.”
“Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)
“Can they, like get fingerprints from her neck? Can they catch the guy that way?”
“This guy isn’t an amateur. He probably used gloves.”
“How do you know he isn’t an amateur, Sherlock?”
“There’s bruising on the left-hand knuckles, and on the sides of both hands. Probably would be on the right-hand knuckles, too, if we had them.”
“She hit him,” Howie said. “She fought back.”
Source: I Hunt Killers
“Can they love? Or is it a bit of code meant to get a reaction from humans? Can anyone tell real love, in a bot or in a human?”
Source: Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
“Can they love without a word for it?”
Source: Dying of the Light
“Can this be happiness, this terrifying freedom?”
“Can this Nigeria, without external support, bake her own bread, sew her own garments, drill her own oil, produce her own cars, fly her own planes, design her own cities and, fight her own wars? What can this Nigeria do? Or does development come through stages and Nigeria, unfortunately, still occupies a learning stage?”
Source: Can Nigeria Bake Her Own Bread?
“Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?”
Source: Law and Order
“Can thought be silent?”
“Can thought exist without words? Are visions, for example, visual thoughts? What would, potentially, be the most sublime form of language and communication? Is thought possible without language in our sense of the word? What would be a pure thought?”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.”
Source: Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches
“Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?”
“Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.”
Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)
“Can trust be trusted?”
Source: A Failure In Trust
“Can verbs be made up? I'll tell you one. I heaven you, so my wings will open wide to love you boundlessly.”
“Can we accept the unexplained, the loss,
The crushing agony, and hold us still.
And nowhere is that clearer vision given
Which pierces a bewildering providence,
And opens windows upon highest heaven,
But where we see Suffering Omnipotence.”
Source: Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael
“Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations. (from 'Compromise, Hell!' published in the November/December 2004 issue of ORION magazine)”
“Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations.”
Source: The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays
“Can we advance the hypothesis that, beyond the critical stage, the heroic stage (which is still that of metaphysics), there is an ironic stage of technology, an ironic stage of history, an ironic stage of value, etc.?
This would free us from the Heideggerian view of technology as the effectuation, and the last stage, of metaphysics; it would free us from all retrospective nostalgia for being, giving us, rather, a gigantic objective irony, a superior intuition of the illusoriness of all this process - which would not be far from the radical post-historical snobbery Alexandre Kojeve spoke of.
At the heart of this artificial reality, this Virtual Reality, this irony is perhaps all we have left of the original illusion, which at least preserves us from any temptation one day to possess the truth.”
Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.”
“Can we all just stop being dicks?!”
“Can we always really look forward, as everyone endlessly advises us to do? Or do we have to hold on to certain key vestiges of our past- as painful, as terrible as they might be- as a way of understanding that there are certain things in life that change us so radically that they stay with us forever? Can we really close the door on that which still haunts us?”
Source: The Moment
“Can we at least avoid the cannibals? I prefer not to vomit when screaming for my life.”
Source: Enchanted Forest
“Can we at least give him some money?” I ask.
Fabithe’s lips twist. “I think you’ve misunderstood the fundamental principles of theft.”
Source: Dawn Rising
“Can we attest to moments of blowing it? I'm not a very good cook. One day, while my husband and I worked upstairs in our home offices, I heard a loud pop. The pop sounded like a gun. We both jumped up and ran downstairs. I turned toward the kitchen and found our lab looking up at the stove, tail wagging as if to say, "Up there!" Upon further investigation, I realized I forgot that I had put eggs in a pot to boil My forgetfulness created an unfolding of events that ultimately led to eggs exploding. Fragments of egg were everywhere! In my attempt to fix the situation, I grabbed the scalding pot and thrust it under cold water. My husband yelled, "No!"
You guessed it. When the water hit the eggs, those that hadn't already burst exploded at that very moment. Shrapnel of egg hit me square in the face speckled my hair, and splattered my clothes. I stood dumbfounded--frozen as if I really were hit by shrapnel. I expected my husband to do what I felt Jesus would have done--grab a towel and help clean me up. Instead, he stood there, lips curled and eyebrows raised, and said, "You have egg on your face."
Isn't that what we often do when the men in our life mess up? Sometimes our messes lead to those moments; sometimes they leave us broken and weeping--or at the very least, with egg on our faces.”
Source: Messed Up Men of the Bible
“Can we be friends??”
“Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.”
“Can we be sure that they are incapable of the feelings or sentiments that are believed to place them on a lower scale than humans? Do we deny sensitivity to all of the so-called lower orders to blunt, protect, and, ultimately, deny our own? We will see that bees can grieve over teh loss of a queen, sound war cries or hum with contentment; they can be angry, docile, ferocious, playful, aggressive, appear happy, or utter pitiful sounds of distress. are these not emotions akin to ours, merely expressed differently?”
“Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?”
“Can we become other than what we are?”
“Can we believe that the real God, if there is one, ever ordered a man to be killed simply for making hair oil, or ointment? We are told in the thirtieth chapter of Exodus, that the Lord commanded Moses to take myrrh, cinnamon, sweet calamus, cassia, and olive oil, and make a holy ointment for the purpose of anointing the tabernacle, tables, candlesticks and other utensils, as well as Aaron and his sons; saying, at the same time, that whosoever compounded any like it, or whoever put any of it on a stranger, should be put to death. In the same chapter, the Lord furnishes Moses with a recipe for making a perfume, saying, that whoever should make any which smelled like it, should be cut off from his people. This, to me, sounds so unreasonable that I cannot believe it. Why should an infinite God care whether mankind made ointments and perfumes like his or not? Why should the Creator of all things threaten to kill a priest who approached his altar without having washed his hands and feet? These commandments and these penalties would disgrace the vainest tyrant that ever sat, by chance, upon a throne.”
Source: Some Mistakes of Moses
“Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.”
“Can we call a moratorium on the use of the term 'ladyparts'? Grazia!”
“Can we call you a believer yet, then?"
"Call me what you like," Quire sniffed. "I stopped knowing what to believe in a while back. I'm playing the game by the rules my enemies have set for the next wee while, that's all.”
Source: The Edinburgh Dead
“Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.”
“Can we choose to disagree on something without fighting or hating each other , because of our difference.”
“Can we come to the point where we can accept the impossible strivings that we have, the utter inability to ever fulfill our narcissistic megalomania, and then go on to live our lives and accept our disturbing thoughts? We need to accept our vulnerabilities and have love for our imperfections. If you can want what you have, I think you're on your way.”
“Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?”
Source: The Double Garden: Works of Maeterlinck
“Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?”
Source: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report
“Can we create critical mass of people who not only agree with one other but can also disagree with one another? I feel like we've forgotten that in this age. And it's led to this dismissal, cynicism, which then is extended through the lack of redemption. I think one of the challenges of the secular, post-modern age is that it creates the day of judgment now. Religions believe that the day of judgment is yet to come, so there is the idea of redemption, and forgiveness, and change, and improvement.”
“Can we cut the Zen crap for a moment?" I ask. "I'm trying to beat this bag to a pulp.”
“Can we delay bloodshed for at least a few days? I didn't cross a cursed lake in a giant wooden bowl so I could be beheaded for treason before I had a chance to sample some royal cuisine."
"That's not the punishment for treason," Ali murmured.
"What's the punishment for treason then?"
"Being trampled to death by a karkadann."
Lubayd paled and this time, Ali knew it wasn't due to seasickness. "Oh," he choked out. "Don't you come from an inventive family?”
Source: The Kingdom of Copper