C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Compared to everything else going on in the house, Howard drinking chocolate milk in the shower almost seemed ordinary.”
Source: Tumble & Blue
“Compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.”
“Compared to her, Sam ran like a girl and told himself as much.”
Source: Dawn Rising
“Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.”
“Compared to Imelda Marcos, Marie Antoinette was a bag lady.”
“Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.”
“Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.”
Source: Silences
“Compared to my talents, Whoopi Goldberg is like one of those fake plastic Buddhas you get at dollar stores. I mean really, I fail to see the humor in an overweight negro woman with dreadlocks, no eyebrows, and is named after a childish term for flatulence.”
“Compared to northern woods, which Leeda had seen on a trip up the Hudson River Valley, the Georgia forest felt primeval. Northern trees seemed picturesque and petite to Leeda, their leaves small in soft, bright greens. Georgia forests were loaded with tall, drooping trees covered in kudzu and smothered in deep greens that seemed like they could swallow someone up. Leeda had never noticed it before.”
Source: Love and Peaches
“Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child's suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon--the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.”
Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier
“Compared to our mental imaginings and dreams, the natural world certainly appears a more real and solid sort of dream. But, in fact, from a higher level of consciousness, it loses that solidity and is also seen as an ephemeral image - by no means to be confused with the real reality of Being. What then is our response to the news e.g. that someone has died? So long as one doesn't get thrown off the certainty of eternal Being, one hears and sees the world's reaction but inwardly knows that nothing real has changed, and most certainly no one has died. An appearance and a dream have changed - that's all.”
“Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.”
“Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.”
“Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman.”
“Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.”
“Compared to the complexity of understanding grief, reading Foucault or Blanchot is like perusing a children’s picture book.”
Source: An Unnecessary Woman
“Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Compared to the dog, the wolf is a true symbol of freedom or of those who refused to be spoon-fed.”
“Compared to the life Jesus offers, mammon in any amount is poverty!”
Source: How Much is Enough?
“Compared to the NBA, the ABA was FABULOUS.”
“Compared to the physical asset, Information Management should be managed holistically as an invaluable corporate asset.”
Source: 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready
“Compared to the rest of the world, it's like we're living in Disneyland.”
Source: Forever Rich
“Compared to the routine, more coarse, carving of the Apostles and Elders, the monstrous rout seems to have been produced by a more expert sculptor, suggesting a scale of value that did not elevate the Divine archetype over the debased animal.”
Source: Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art
“Compared to the size of the universe we are small and insignificant, but you’ve got to keep it in perspective. We’re lucky really, I mean think of the odds of you existing at all. The universe went through a billion acts of chance that led to you being conceived, millions of chemical reactions occurred just to make you, you. Think of all the potential people that could have been but didn’t get the chance. Look around. The mere fact that the universe is so large and yet we are able to be here like we are is amazing. We are unlike any other planet or species in the universe. Don’t look at it all and think we’re insignificant. We’re the equivalent of someone finding a diamond the size of a grain of sand on a beach the size of Mars. We are small, but we ARE significant.”
Source: The Dream To End All Dreams
“Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.”
“Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.”
“Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.”
Source: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
“Compared to their sense of smell, dogs seem to pay a lot less attention to their sense of taste. Apparently they believe that if something fits into their mouths, then it is food, no matter what it tastes like.”
“Compared to them I was a fly, a nasty obscene fly – cleverer, better educated, nobler than any of them, that goes without saying – but a fly, always getting out of everybody's way”
“Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.”
“Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.”
“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.”
“Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.”
“Compared with Baltimore, New York feels like a city-themed theme park. The difference between the two places is the difference between affectation and insanity, the eccentric and the grotesque.”
“Compared with games, reality is disconnected.”
Source: Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
“Compared with how we've ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees - far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.”
“Compared with me, a tree is immortal.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass from one concrete object to its habitual concrete successor far more uniformly than is the case with us. In other words, their associations of ideas are almost exclusively by contiguity. So far, however, as any brute might think by abstract characters instead of by association of con cretes, he would have to be admitted to be a reasoner in the true human sense. How far this may take place is quite uncertain.”
“Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.”
Source: Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life
“Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.”
Source: A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel
“Compared with now when almost everyone knows what graphic design is and has some sort of access to the tools to make it, back then, it was really esoteric, you had to quantify it as being 'like commercial art', as one still does in certain circles. It was a strange thing to want to do for a living.”
“Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to go to church, do volunteer work or put down roots in a community. Journalists are over-represented in ZIP code areas where residents are twice as likely as other Americans to rent foreign movies, drink Chablis, own an espresso maker and read magazines such as Architectural Digest and Food & Wine.”
“Compared with other animals, our huge cortex also has many more regions specialized for particular functions, such as associating words with objects or forming relationships and reflecting on them. The cortex is what makes us human.”
“Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .”
“Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.”
“Compared with the BBC's studied neutrality, Fox comes across as a kind of Gong Show of propaganda.”
“Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.”
“Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . .”
“Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.”