C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Can you feel the steam heat coming from my undercarriage?”
“Can you feel this" He flattened her hand on his chest. His heart thudded rapidly against her palm. "It always does this when you're near me. When you're not, I'm looking for you, feeling something missing. I'm not whole when you're not around. It took being with you again to discover how empty my life was without you in it."
- Brady Fitzpatrick”
Source: Hearts Under Siege
“Can you feel this?" He flattened her palm on his chest. His heart thudded rapidly against her palm. "It always does this when you're near me. When you're not, I'm looking for you, feeling something missing. I'm not whole when you're not around. It took being with you again to discover how empty my life was without you in it."
- Brady Fitzpatrick”
Source: Hearts Under Siege
“Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.”
“Can you find beauty in darkness, Eve?" Danny asked.
She nodded. "Yes."
"Then look for it," he said softly.”
Source: Beyond Eden
“Can you find out how owns C and R industries? They bought the old abandoned mental asylum downtown." "That old thing? What are they going to do with it?" "I don't know. I was hoping their overcompensating sign would say, but it just says 'private property' and shouts lots of threats in capital letters, all of which I plan to completely ignore later.”
“Can you find some peace today?”
“Can you forget about me?”
His eyes shimmered with tears. “No. Not if I live to be a hundred.”
“Then don’t ask me to do what you can’t.”
Source: The Sweet Gum Tree
“Can you forgive her? Can you do that?
There was no response.
Because if you can start to forgive, then it will become easier.
And?
And then you will be able to forgive yourself—and ask others to forgive you.”
Source: At the Reunion Buffet
“Can you forgive me, sweet boy? For that night?"
Hank tilted his head to the side again, and seemed to reply by giving Ellis's hand a sloppy lick.
"Thank you, Hank. I know you can't understand, but you saved me. Again and again, just by being there. My life was fuller because of you. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. And I love you, so much." He patted the air softly. "You can go now, sweet boy."
Hank stilled, as if Ellis's words were settling over him. Rosemary felt the air around them swell and for a second the world grew soft and permeable. She heard a raspy bark, as if down a long echo, and Hank dissolved into moonlight.”
Source: Love at First Fright
“CAN YOU FREE YOURSELF ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE THE REALITY OF LIFE AS IT GOES ON BEFORE YOU AND WITH YOU, AND AS YOU GO ON AS PART OF IT? OR NOT? BECAUSE IF YOU CAN’T YOU STAND ON SQUARE ONE, UNTIL YOU DIE.”
“Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?”
“can you get a laptop at 20% off Amazon..?”
“Can you get any better than Patrick Dempsey? I don't think so!”
“Can You Get In The Habit?”
“Can you get it? (Jaden) If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron) I’d rather trade places with Prometheus and have my innards ripped out every day. (Jaden) So would I. (Acheron)”
“Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.”
Source: Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1
“Can you give him a break with the ticket? He bought that car with his first paycheck when he became a medical intern and drove it straight home to show his dad that all the sacrifices he'd made to give his son a better life were worth it. One minute he was #desiproud and the next, Bambi gets revenge Thumper style."
"I never liked that movie," Officer Pataudi said.
"Of course you didn't, because you have a heart. You feel for the little guy, for all the Bambis who lost their moms and all the immigrants who came here for the American dream only to be crushed by the cruel deer of fate.”
Source: The Marriage Game
“Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.”
Source: The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...
“Can you go back to America and tell all your friends that I do NOT want to be rescued? All these Americans and Viet Kieus who come here thinking that they need to save us are so stupid. If you had to choose between working in a factory for twelve hours a day with bosses who don't let you rest and [who] look at you like they are raping you with their eyes, or working in a bar where you have a few drinks and sometimes spread you legs for a man, which would you choose? Why don't people go rescue factory workers? We are the ones who were not scared to leave factory work for sex work. We are smart hustlers [*nguoi chen lan*], not dumb, scared factory workers!
—Trinh, twenty-four-year-old hostess in Lavender”
Source: Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
“Can you go cazy without knowing you're crazy?”
“Can you grab the butter out of the fridge?"
It was as hard as a rock. She tried pressing her fingertips into its surface, leaving shallow indentations in the foil wrapper as the butter yielded little. "I'll need to wait for this to soften."
"You can grate it."
"Like, with a cheese grater? Really?"
Nate nodded. "A trick I learned from my mom. Works like a charm."
"Huh, who knew?”
Source: Recipe for a Perfect Wife
“Can you grasp your right fist with your right hand? Obviously not -- your hand can't grasp itself. But there's another, less obvious reason why you can't do it: As soon as you open your right hand to grasp something, you no longer have a right fist.”
Source: Wyrm
“Can you guess what makes me choose other restaurants over vegan restaurants when there is a perfect match in my dietary needs and those restaurants’ offerings? It is the inability of most of the vegan restaurants to differentiate between the needs of a vegan who never had meat and a vegan who is not born as one but became one with time.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Can you guys sing to me?”
Source: Words on Bathroom Walls
“Can you handle it?"
"Hell yeah."
"I mean..." Tom glanced around the tavern where pack members filled nearly every chair at the wooden tables. The room was humming with conversation. He leaned forward. "Because of the ghosts."
"That don't exist."
"Right."
"Yeah, I can handle it.”
Source: A Silver Wolf Christmas
“Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.”
“Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?”
“Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?”
“Can you have a seance to summon the ghost of a dead zombie?”
“Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.”
“Can you hear my words or just your version of them?”
“Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can you hear the dreams laughing in the sawdust? Can you hear the dreams shaking just a little bit as the day grows long? Can you hear the dreams putting on a good jacket that smells of fry bread and sweet smoke? Can you hear the dreams stay up late and talk so many stories?”
“Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to do so? Then, will it be right on your part to ask others to do the same thing just to satisfy your desires? If you cannot tolerate infliction of pain on your body or mind by others' words and actions, what right have you to do the same to others through your words and deeds?
Do unto others as you would like to be done by. Injury or violence done by you to any life in any form, animal or human, is as harmful as it would e if caused to your own self.”
“Can you hold off on the whole war thing until after I'm dead?”
Source: Cast in Peril
“Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?”
Source: The Winter of our Discontent
“Can you honestly proclaim that the world is not primitive! Can you let your six-year-old go to the library a few blocks away from your apartment on her own, without worrying about her safe return! Look deep within yourself, then answer, not to me, but to yourself. If you feel the slightest bit of worry on this matter, then I'm afraid, our world is not yet made unprimitive. So, what can we do about it? Do we simply accept it as our fate and live in fear every day of our life, or do we stand up and act, so that, even if we do not have a safe and civilized world to live in, at least our children or perhaps their children will!”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?”
“Can you honestly tell me that your great desire is to be holy? Can you honestly tell me your great desire is to not be like the world, but to be like Jesus Christ? Because if you cannot, you should be afraid. Those who love the world do not have the love of the Father (1 John 2:15).”
“Can you hyperventilate a little quieter?” he whispered.”
Source: Edge of Truth
“Can you identify in your own life speculations that became educated guesses and then truth? Have you ever seen your established truths upended, with a resulting revolution in your life?”
Source: The Science of Interstellar
“Can you identify the source preventing you from feeling good every single day, from loving yourself unconditionally and making your dreams come true? Is it a voice in your head or a gut wrenching ache that compromises your inner peace and doesn’t allow you to accept the love around you? Is there one thing, or maybe many things, keeping you from forgiving your past and moving forward, tormenting you with lies like “You don’t deserve real love so just settle for whatever you can get,” “You’re not smart enough to achieve your dream so don’t even try,” or “Look at your past… you should hate yourself way more than you actually do!”?
Welcome to your Little Monster.”
Source: Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Can you imagine - a blond Tarzan?”
“Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.”
“Can you imagine a 6 year old banging all day on a drum kit. I do have photos of me in my sort of princess girly bedroom with a bad-ass sparkle set.”
“Can you imagine a demon auction? Serial killer going once...twice...sold to the drama queen at the corner.”
“Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.”
“Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?”
“Can you imagine a longing which is not for victory
but the face of night, where the moon is aching to light the sky?
What if a real thirst is not for the prize to be won,
but for the song of night,
when lovers whisper to one another's ears?
What if, it is a longing for a language
that the rivers speak to the sea?
What if, joy is not in the conquest
but in the quiet unfolding of a greater mystery?
What if, a desire is not for the pleasures,
but for knowing, how flowers give more of them,
emptying them of every scent,
only to be filled with the joy of giving?
What if, the only longing is to know
how waves come home to the shores,
and write the story of the sea?
How lovers rest in one another's eyes,
to melt in the gaze of eternity?”
“Can you imagine a mother saying to a young child trying to make a sound that approximates mama, "Don't copy me, kid, . . . make up your own language," or a teacher complaining as a child tries to approximate her letters so that we can write his name saying, "Make up your own script"?”