C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Can we move this conversation along, I'm getting frightfully tired of 'hoa'.”
“Can we not convict and yet mitigate the penalty?”
Source: Billy Budd and Other Tales
“Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?”
“Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?”
Source: The Writings of Quintus Sept. Flor. Tertullianus
“Can we not say 'dumped' and 'Bellas' in the same sentence, please?”
“Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.”
“Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“Can we only love
Something created in our own imaginations?”
Source: The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot
“Can we only love
Something created in our own imaginations?
Are we all in fact unloving and unloveable?
Then one is alone, and if one is alone
Then lover and beloved are equally unreal
And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.”
“Can we outrun the heavens?”
Source: King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III
“Can we please drop the whole ‘school starts tomorrow’ talk? I’d like to live in denial for a little while longer.”
Source: Becoming Alpha
“Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals." Holly said. "Not me!" said Orion cheerily, "I'm just a Teenager with hormones running wild and may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction.”
“Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?”
“Can we pray for the reelection of George Bush?”
“Can we put a "fish-only" sign in a forest!”
Source: Quote: +/-
“Can we quantify failure in degrees and say, ‘on a 10 point scale this failure causes this much pain?’ Extremely difficult.”
Source: The Failure Project -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear
“Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?”
Source: The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
“Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we really be friends with those who don't love any books? I'm not so sure of that.”
“Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?”
Source: West of Here
“Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.”
“Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?”
“Can we reasonably expect happiness from an insatiable appetite which, no matter how it stuffs its belly, is still psychologically like Oliver Twist in the poorhouse, holding up an empty bowl and begging, "I want some more"? Isn't it possible that our dream of the good society contained, from the beginning, a hidden violation of the Tenth Commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"?”
Source: Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments
“Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?”
Source: The Garden of God
“Can we rename [Taylor Swift] Pinocchio Swift?”
“Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?”
Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life
“Can we save the live demo for later, please? Bean Sidhe in angst, here.”
Source: Soul Screamers Volume Two: My Soul to Keep\My Soul to Steal\Reaper
“Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of Lords in England, that still represent the English feudal nobility in terms of positions above regional representatives, who are in the end the representatives supposedly elected by the population. Many mechanisms exist, but they are mechanisms to preserve the power of the wealthy classes, of the bourgeois classes that hold the power and rights above the rest of the society.”
“Can we screw the 'sorry' part and let me hit you back instead?" Vishous to Butch”
Source: The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide
“Can we see the glowing fissure in your chest?” Simon asked.
“Simon, it’s rude to bring up glowing fissures in other people’s chests,” said Clary. “What do you think they want with the Book of the White, Magnus?”
Magnus turned to look at Alec. “So, you told them everything? Did you say the S-word? The R-word?”
Alec rolled his eyes. “If you’re asking if I told them about Shinyun and Ragnor, I did.”
Source: The Lost Book of the White
“Can we self-generate knowledge by simply assuming things to be true? Where do assumptions come from?”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“Can we share my eyes
so you can see what I see?
Can we share my ears
so you can hear what I hear?
Can you perch on my shoulders
so you can go where I go?
Always in my heart,
I don’t experience anything separate from you.
This shared wonderment becomes doubled.
This shared love becomes infinite.”
“Can we sincerely tell ourselves that we lead a life that we are proud of?”
“Can we sit on the steps? I need to drink in as much sunshine and nice weather as possible." Tarts & Turnovers”
Source: Tarts & Turnovers
“Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?”
“Can we stop talking about my pants, please?”
Source: Danny Mann Super Fan
“Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?”
“Can we talk about the miracle that is the Small World ride? It's like an acid trip drag show.”
“Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.”
“Can we talk?”
“Can we think more than one thought at the same time? Most of us know we can't do that. Both hemispheres are always working all of the time. But one of them is always dominant.”
“Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?”
Source: A land of our own: an oral autobiography
“Can we train an AI to exist in service to the efficiency of a business ecosystem? I'd like to explore that possibility.”
“Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?”
“Can we wait for a different winter, please?
The fall hangs on, fallen and halted
Distracted, breakable leaves - not at ease
Wait, till the earthy scents rightly exalted!”
“Can we walk that thin line between constant change and continuation? And in the middle of this flux, feel gratitude but not hold on? Gratitude greases the joints to let us let go, and at the same time to stop and realize we received something. Gratitude is the most developed and mature of human emotions.”
Source: The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
“Can we who have had the joy of knowing that we are not orphans, that we have a Father, be indifferent to this city which asks of us, perhaps even unwittingly, without being aware of it, a hope that will help it look to the future with greater confidence and serenity? We cannot remain indifferent. . . . Words without witness are hot air. Words do not suffice. It must be the true witness that Paul speaks of.”
“Can we, with the assistance of advanced technology and neurobiological facts, create an artifact with consciousness? Perhaps not surprisingly, given the nature of the question, I have two answers for it, and one is no and the other yes. No, we have little chance of creating an artifact with anything that resembles human consciousness, conceptualized from an inner-sense perspective. Yes, we can create artifacts with the formal mechanisms of consciousness proposed in this book, and it may be possible to say that those artifacts have some kind of consciousness. Some external behaviors of artifacts with formal mechanisms of consciousness will mimic conscious behaviors and may pass a consciousness version of the Turing test. But for all the good reasons that John Searle and Colin McGinn have adduced on the matter of behavior, mind, and the Turing test, passing the test guarantees little about the artifact's mind. More to the point, the artifact's internal states may even mimic some of the neural and mental designs I propose here as a basis for consciousness. They would have a way of generating second-order knowledge, but, without the help of the nonverbal vocabulary of feeling, the knowledge would not be expressed in the manner we encounter in humans and is probably present in so many living species. Feeling is, in effect, the barrier, because the realization of human consciousness may require the existence of feelings. The "looks" of emotion can be simulated, but what feelings feel like cannot be duplicated in silicon. Feelings cannot be duplicated unless flesh is duplicated, unless the brain's actions on flesh are duplicated, unless the brain's sensing of flesh after it has been acted upon by the brain is duplicated.”
Source: The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness