C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Comment serait la vie si nous n'avions pas le courage de tenter quoi que ce soit ?”
“Comment threads are the new therapy for people. They just go and post the worst things they can think of because they feel bad, and then other people start attacking them, and then they attack back.”
“Comment tout cela finirait-il, comment tout cela était-il destiné à finir, voilà qui n'avait pas d'importance. Il ressemblait à ces silhouettes gracieuses aperçues dans une fête ou sur une scène, dont les joies nous paraissent très lointaines, mais dont les souffrances excitent notre sens de la beauté et dont les blessures sont comme des roses rouges.”
“Comment ! tu vends mon cheval, dit Athos, tu vends mon Bajazet ? Et sur quoi ferai-je la campagne ? Sur Grimaud ?”
Source: The Three Musketeers
“Comment ça, elle était trop jeune pour avoir un avis sur sa vie ?”
Source: Viser la lune
“Commentating, illustrating, description giving, adjective expert, analyzing, surmising musical myth seeking people of the universe, this is yours.”
“Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.”
“Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.”
Source: The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions
“commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.”
“Commenting on paternity establishment programs: What these millions of children want and need is not a name on a form or a promise that the sheriff will arrest these guys if they don't pay child support. What they want and need is in-the-home, love-the-mother fathers,. . .”
“Commenting on playoffs to determine a national champion: I'm not in favor of 15 games either. I think that's way too much football. The thing that I feel good about is that these guys hung together through 15 games and played hard every week. That's a marvelous tribute to the kids. We just hung in there today and kept playing. It's just been a special feeling all year long.”
“Commenting on print journalism at the Commenting on print journalism at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner: “Thanks to Obamacare, millions of Americans can visit a doctor’s office and see what a print magazine actually looks like.”
“Commenting on the decisions of the Bowl Alliance regarding WAC teams: It's a step, no question. Obviously, it's not what any of us wanted, but it's at least a step. We can now say we're part of the Alliance. However, I hope it's not perceived that they bought us off and we're going to go away. It's not fair. It's not right; we still need to fight. We can't let them go away and hide. Other schools are taking a major share of the pot, and that's still a major sore point as far as I'm concerned. But at least this is a step, and better than what we had in the past.”
“Commenting on YouTube beauty makeup tutorials works. Try it.”
“Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny.”
“Comments are free but facts are sacred.”
“Comments are proof most people don't read the articles.”
“Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional.”
“Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury; she first opens and polishes the mind, then corrupts and enervates both that and the body.”
“Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.”
Source: Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America
“Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.”
“Commerce has made all winds her mistress.”
“Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.”
Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam
“Commerce is a cure for the most destructive prejudices; for it is almost a general rule, that wherever we find agreeable manners, there commerce flourishes; and that wherever there is commerce, there we meet with agreeable manners.”
Source: The Spirit of the Laws
“Commerce is a form of warfare.”
Source: The Life that Really is
“Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.”
“Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.”
“Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.”
“Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.”
“Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.”
“Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!”
Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies
“Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.”
Source: William Blake
“Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.”
Source: The works of John Ruskin
“Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.”
“Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.”
“Commerce is the great civilizer.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Commerce is the school of cheating.”
“Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2
“Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Commerce tends toward rewarding inclusion, broadness, and liberality. Tribal loyalties, ethnic and religious bigotries, and irrational prejudices are bad for business. The merchant class has been conventionally distrusted by tribalist leaders -- from the ancient to the modern world -- precisely because merchantcraft tends to break down barriers between groups.”
“Commerce unites; religion divides.”
“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.”
“Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.”
Source: The Cheese Monkeys
“Commercial bankers have a responsibility to holistically evaluate the creditworthiness of businesses seeking loans to ensure responsible lending practices.”
“Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.”
“Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making
devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous.”