C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Can you imagine a scenario, given our present circumstances, in which human life will actually survive and be here in a thousand years?”
Source: The UnPeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness
“Can you imagine a silence so desperate
to be heard?”
“Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.”
“Can you imagine a world without books to read?”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.”
“Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and strong, is also largely pneumatic - especially in the bigger birds. The beak, skull, feet, and all the other bones of a 25-pound pelican have been found to weigh but 23 ounces.”
Source: Song of the Sky
“Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to forget who you are and settle for being something horrible like an--an accountant!”
“Can you imagine being bilingual? Or even knowing anybody that was? I'm not even unilingual. Actually, I shouldn't say that. I don't give myself enough credit. I know enough English to, you know, get by. I can order in restaurants and stuff.”
“Can you imagine being royalty but being treated like a servant? Can you imagine being the daughter of the true king but being held in low regard and never setting foot in your home country for as long as you live? Can you imagine being destined to reign yet never even hearing your true name? Of course you can.”
Source: Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You
“Can you imagine charging one of the most powerful people in the country with treason and those around him with fraud and corruption?”
Source: The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison
“Can you imagine doing ministry the last five hundred years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do books’? Can you imagine doing ministry in the next five years and getting away with ‘Sorry, I don’t do Facebook’?”
“Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you?”
Source: Gone Girl
“Can you imagine getting a gun for a secret Santa? That is especially not a good idea if you work in a post office.”
“Can you imagine Grandmaster Flash on a laptop?”
“Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.”
“Can you imagine having to grow up with Instagram and Twitter? Every single thing that happens is potentially filmed and put online. It's bad. In the good old days, you could split your pants getting off the bus and not have to worry about your crush in the line ahead of you watch the aftermath unfold on YouTube. Not today.”
“Can you imagine how boring life would be without the seven little spices? you talk about sloth, but why would men and women get out of bed if there were no lust? Why would people want to be in a band if they couldn't feel the rush that rage bring to the musical table? Why would anyone want to be a bleeding heart without even a hint of greed in their dirty little soul? Why would the world go round if there weren't a few rules to break? A few revolutions to make? Let's put it this way: Why would you want to take a deep breath if you were expected to hold the damn thing?”
Source: Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
“Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?”
Source: The Joy Luck Club
“Can you imagine how many more people today would be happier, more stable, better contributors to the world, if only their fathers had been actively present in their childhood?”
Source: Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.”
“Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?”
“Can you imagine if everyone on the planet turned off their TV to stop the intake of fear from the news channels and just concentrated on love? The whole planet would instantly propel itself into the ascension process and turn into a heavenly state in a higher vibratory dimension!”
“Can you imagine if social media websites were people and just how fucked up those people would be?”
“Can you imagine if you had a pair of shoes that you could only walk in? That could be kind of limiting under certain circumstances. 'Everybody get outta here! There's a swarm of bees coming!' What? Oh great, I got my walking shoes on today. I guess I better stroll the hell out of here at a moderate pace.”
“Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that passes all understanding."”
Source: Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Can you imagine in 1968 some band being like, "Vietnam is the place to be!"”
“Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we've just discovered that the whole production machine is dominated by only one type of human being, excluding women, excluding gays, excluding minorities? This is not new.”
“Can you imagine … it’s now up to the common herd to decide what outsiderism is, and how it should be presented. Real outsiders don’t give a fuck what a bunch of liberal cunts think. That’s exactly what radicals are opposed to. Can you imagine – the outsider without an outside … the outsider acceptable to the flock, the sheeple. Isn’t that the definition of an insider? You can’t be a Gadfly if you don’t piss anyone off.”
Source: The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning
“Can you imagine looking at forever and knowing you’ll always be alone?”
Source: Forevermore The Novel: Science, Religion, Reincarnation, Conspiracy To Control the World and Live Forever
“Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.”
“Can you imagine saying ‘Hi’ to Sam Jackson and he goes and gives you a hug? It’s like being hugged by a lion.”
“Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.”
“Can you imagine sitting in the passenger seat and back seat of a car and watching a cop shoot and kill your husband and father?”
Source: Betrayal In Black
“Can you imagine sitting there letting the sea roll over you your whole life. No feet. No locomotion. Your whole fate decided by what washes over you.”
“And that’s different than us?”
Source: The Luminous Sea
“Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women are inferior to men, and are meant only serve the men! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, a man can have multiple wives, and yet be deemed civilized! Here that somebody is a fundamentalist ape - a theoretical pest from the stone-age, that somehow managed to survive even amidst all the rise of reasoning and intellect.”
Source: Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
“Can you imagine such a road? A road with no end and no destination. When someone goes too far on it, he thinks that maybe he is moving straight, or in the right direction, and sometimes he thinks that he has come in the opposite direction. But he is not able to understand where he should go. And this is his biggest problem, but if he understands that no direction is right or wrong, and it is all about enjoying the journey, whether sometimes he passes through thorns or sometimes flowers, sometimes endures the storm. Or beautiful weather, it's all about enjoying and moving, and his biggest problem is gone, that's life
07-01-2024”
“Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.”
“Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?”
Source: Rizal Without the Overcoat
“Can you imagine the governments telling the men of the world ‘COVID-19 damages testosterone levels and they tend to be lower during and after having the virus’?”
“Can you imagine the headlines if I gave someone food poisoning? They'd hang me off Tower Bridge by my ballbag!”
“Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?”
“Can you imagine the number of events and choices that had to occur since the birth of the Universe leading to the making of you (or anyone for that matter) just exactly the way you are! So, you, me and each one of the several billion humans are as special, in our own way!”
“Can you imagine the number of events and choices that had to occur since the birth of the Universe leading to the making of you (or anyone for that matter) just exactly the way you are! So, you, me and each one of the several billion humans is as special, in our own way!”
“Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?”
“Can you imagine what it was like to write in a library, where you could run upstairs and feel the ambiance of your loved writers, and take books off the shelf and discover things that you might want to put in your book as a quote, and then run back down and finish writing another page.”
“Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?”
“Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?”
“Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts
“Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?”
Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings