C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or what their background is. The common standards will provide an accessible roadmap for schools, teachers, parents and students, with clear and realistic goals.”
“Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.”
“Common things are common and Uncommon things are uncommon. Let it be a footprint that you are uncommon to be common in common things.”
“Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.”
“Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.”
Source: A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...
“Common will please, but never impress.”
“Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.”
“Common, ordinary, everyday Democrats, not leftists, there may be - if the agenda gets implemented and this country starts humming on the domestic side and if jobs come back and if the economy gets up to 3% growth and is sustained and the job market expands accordingly and people's wages go up, it won't matter.”
“Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.”
“Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.”
Source: A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
“Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.”
“Commonalities, which need to be celebrated, exist among creative people – as they do in the sciences, the sports or in many other professions and areas of interest. These passionate junctions of communication, such as in the arts and sciences, transcend cultural boundaries and have enormous impact as unifying, creative exchanges – rendezvous without borders”
Source: A Fantasist & A Scientist In Conversation: Creativity, Imagination, and Scientific Verification
“Commonality & Camaraderie. By identifying, developing, and connecting powerful points of reference to others, you will have a rich resource of information from which to engage in stimulating conversations and connect on amazing levels.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.”
Source: The Empathy Exams: Essays
“Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.”
Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods
“Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.”
“Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.”
Source: Seldeniana: with a biographical preface
“Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.”
“commonplace, adj.
... But then I'll walk into the bathroom and find you've forgotten to put the cap back on the toothpaste again, and it will be this splinter that I just keep stepping on.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.”
“Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.”
“Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.”
Source: The Poems and Plays of John Masefield
“Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.”
“Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.”
Source: Character
“Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.”
“Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.”
Source: Norman Rockwell: pictures for the American people
“Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.”
Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“Commonsense is the wick of the candle.”
Source: The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar.”
“Commonsense will never come from following your heart; wisdom is only stored in the mind.”
“Communal franchise is wrong in principle and harmful in practice; the time has come in Fiji for all races to get out of the thin water-tight compartments and start thinking in terms of residents of Fiji.”
“Communal well-being is central to human life.”
“Commune with the dew of your Soul. Awaken to all of you- your beauty. It is your unique essence that sustains, and your fragrance that maintains, in this ever present now.
You are beautiful. Love yourself.”
Source: Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul
“Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.”
“Communicate at all times with the Creator.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Communicate confidence in your current self but also a certainty that your future self will know better.”
“Communicate. Don’t just talk.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.”
“Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.”
“Communicate with your fans or customers. They know we live in an ever changing world. If you tell them what you are thinking and why you are doing what you do, as I did with my blog regarding Nash leaving, they will respect and support you more.”
“Communicate your expertise in little ways not seeking to please the masses but seeking to live your dreams through your work.”
“Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.”
“Communicate, communicate, communicate: If anything, make sure to communicate what you're doing, what you're up to, what's going on and what issues your facing as often as you can - even if [you think] no one's listening. This serves both as a log of your activities and a personal record that you can refer to later but also opens the possibility that someone might just come along and be able to help you in some unexpected but totally necessary way!”
“Communicate. Listen to your customers, associates and competitors.”
“Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.”
“Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.”
“Communicating and celebrating the times when individuals have made values-based decisions is, of course, empowering and can provide role models. But perhaps more importantly, it removes the sense of futility that often prevents employees from speaking up.”
“Communicating is a bit of a problem. Playing in New York is great but there are times when I feel a long way from home.”
“Communicating negatively (gossiping, bragging, bullying, and criticizing) can be disastrous to your reputation, cause you to lose the respect of others, and leave a terrible impression. Why leave this essential expertise up to chance when it can make or break the success of your relations?”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact