C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.”
“Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.”
“Commoditization is the enemy of meaning. In ages dominated by the forces of commoditization, individuals pay the price with devalued lives. by contrast, unique skills requiring mastery and expertise, like the skills of a brain surgeon, are safe from the threat of commoditization.”
“Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.”
“Commom Sense" has more to do with a sense pertaining to the common good of the whole than just isolated logic... for, what "logic" then do we speak of?”
“Common aim is stronger than blood.”
“Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.”
“Common arguments for culture at a global level, such as creativity, diversity, and heritage, fail to take into account the significance of culture as the means to facilitate commitment to international agreements. In this sense, culture ought to be considered a global public good alongside digital and information.”
Source: 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
“Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.”
“Common Core is a big win for education.”
“Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."”
“Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.”
Source: Stolen
“Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another.”
“Common criticism of the Internet is that it is dominated by the crude, the uninformed, the immature, the smug, the untalented, the repetitious, the pathetic, the hostile, the deluded, the sefl-righteous, and the shrill. This criticism overlooks the fact that the Internet also offers - for the savvy individual who knows where to look - the tasteless and borderline insane.”
“Common danger made common friends.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.”
“Common decency is a core part of who people are.”
“Common education standards are essential for producing the educated work force America needs to remain globally competitive. This voluntary state lead effort will help ensure that all students can receive the college and career ready, world class education they deserve, no matter where they live. I applaud the states efforts that got us here today and the work of NGA, CCSSO and Achieve in supporting this important achievement.”
“Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of the European Parliament.”
“Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.”
Source: A Night of Serious Drinking
“Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.”
Source: Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society
“Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.”
Source: The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes
“Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.”
“Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.”
“Common grace curbs the destructive power of sin, maintains in a measure the moral order of the universe, thus making an orderly life possible, distributes in varying degrees gifts and talents among men, promotes the development of science and art, and showers untold blessings upon the children of men.”
Source: Systematic Theology
“Common hatred can bond uncommon individuals.”
Source: VIKAS 2.7: Rebooting Development
“Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.”
“Common Indians says that Hindus came to this world before Adam. Is there any truth in this?”
“Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.”
“Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known to the unknown, but from forms in which memory does not serve us to those in which it does.”
“Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.”
Source: The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793
“Common interests hold a predominant role in the ability to garner and retain a social circle.”
“Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because he has an opinion... just says a lot about the state of America. You are allowed to have an opinion in the United States - he's never harmed anybody, he just has an opinion about a president that wasn't good for our country.”
“Common knowledge never attracts real awe and admiration”
“Common knowledge, but important nonetheless”
“Common law is common right.”
“Common Lisp is politics, not art.”
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
“Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent fellow must behave,'' he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that characterizes a man as a common man. Yet the common man does choose. He chooses to adopt traditional patterns or patterns adopted by other people because he is convinced that this procedure is best fitted to achieve his own welfare. And he is ready to change his ideology and consequently his mode of action whenever he becomes convinced that this would better serve his own interests.”
“Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.”
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Common man's philosophies arise from the social status and affordability of people. Great personalities become prominent because they can break the barriers.”
“Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.”
“Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.”
“Common misconception. People often think the light good and dark evil. They are different, yes, but not entirely dissimilar. Mab is more chaotic than Titania, the light queen. But Titania is colder. She does not even pretend to care for humans.”
Source: A Poison Dark and Drowning
“Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.”
“Common mistake sales reps make on the call they launch their pitch prematurely.”
Source: Get To The Top
“Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.”
Source: Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility
“Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.”
“Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.”