C Quotes
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“Con puño y letra hay que escribir, incluso, la despedida: así de breve, así de grave, así de repentina, como la vida.”
Source: El tiempo rueda
“Con quale frequenza raccontiamo la storia della nostra vita? Aggiustandola, migliorandola, applicandovi tagli strategici? E più avanti si va negli anni, Meno corriamo il rischio che qualcuno intorno a noi ci possa contestare quella versione dei fatti, ricordandoci che la nostra vita non è la nostra vita, ma solo la storia che ne abbiamo raccontato. Agli altri, ma soprattutto noi stessi.
da "Il senso di una fine”
“Con questo libro ho cercato di chiudere il capitolo, fino a oggi, più lungo e cupo della mia vita. Sono profondamente sollevata di esser riuscita a trovare le parole per esprimere tutto l’impronunciabile, tutte le contraddizioni. Vederle stampate davanti a me, mi aiuta a guardare avanti con fiducia. Perché ciò che ho vissuto, mi ha reso anche forte: sono sopravvissuta alla prigionia nella segreta, mi sono liberata da sola e non mi sono piegata. So che sono in grado di destreggiarmi anche nella vita in libertà. E questa libertà comincia adesso, quattro anni dopo il 23 agosto 2006. Solo adesso posso tirare una riga e dire veramente: sono libera.”
Source: 3,096 Days
“Con questo non voglio dire che il depresso e insicuro Charlie Brown, l’egoista e sadica Lucy, l’eccentrico filosofo Linus e l’ossessivo Schroeder (che soddisfa le sue ambizioni beethoveniane con un pianoforte giocattolo e una sola ottava) non siano tutti avatar di Schultz. Ma il suo vero alter ego è chiaramente Snoopy: l’imbroglione proteiforme che fonda la propria libertà sulla certezza di essere in fondo adorabile, il trasformista che, per puro divertimento, può diventare un elicottero, un giocatore di hokey o il Grande Brachetto, e poi di nuovo, in un lampo, prima che il suo virtuosismo possa annoiarvi o sminuirvi, tornare a essere il cagnolino vivace che aspetta solo la cena.”
“Con siete mil millones y medio de seres humanos, todo peligro de extinción de la especie parece descartado... o, cuando menos, todo peligro de extinción por falta de nacimientos.”
Source: Sorcières : La puissance invaincue des femmes
“Con su partida,
un abolido sol
se hace querer el doble
que antes, a pesar de toda
su dorada presencia.”
Source: En mi flor me he escondido
“Con suficiente información es casi imposible "no" predecir las acciones de la gente.”
Source: The Commanding Self
“Con tal disposición y determinación, ¡qué país es éste para el viajero, donde la más mísera posada está tan llena de aventuras como un castillo encantado y cada comida es en sí un logro! ¡Que se quejen otros de la falta de buenos caminos y hoteles suntuosos y de todas las complicadas comodidades de un país culto y civilizado en la mansedumbre y el lugar común, pero a mí que me den el trepar por las ásperas montañas, el andar por ahí errante y las costumbres medio salvajes, pero francas y hospitalarias, que le dan un sabor tan exquisito a la querida, vieja y romántica España!”
Source: Cuentos de la Alhambra (Narrativa)
“Con toda su diversidad étnica y cultural, no hay ningún otro lugar como Londres en términos de tolerancia, compasión y humanidad.”
“Con todas las cosas y en todas las cosas, somos parientes”
“Con todo, para mí, mi delito es mío. Para a cárcel, el delito es común. Es un crimen tan pobre, que no tiene secretos para nadie. Al mismo tiempo es un crimen tan rico, que tiene castigo para todos.”
Source: La Carcel
“Con tu dedo, señálame el camino a seguir,
profetízame, y elevaré mi alma hasta ti,”
Source: Alma etérea
“Con un coltello,
un coltellino,
in un giorno di festa, tra le due e le tre,
si uccisero i due uomini dell'amore.
Con un coltello,
un coltellino
che lo contiene una mano,
ma che penetra sottile
fra le carni stupite,
e si ferma nel punto
dove impigliata trema
l'oscura radice del grido.”
“Con un salto il commissario fu sulla verandina. E lo vide, un puntolino a ripa di mare che si dirigeva verso Vigàta. In mutande com’era, si lanciò all’inseguimento. François non correva, camminava deciso. Quando sentì alle sue spalle i passi di qualcuno appresso a lui, si fermò senza manco voltarsi. Montalbano, col fiato grosso, gli si accoccolò davanti, ma non gli spiò niente.
Il picciliddro non piangeva, gli occhi erano fermi, taliavano al di là di Montalbano.
«Je veux maman» disse.
Vide arrivare Livia di corsa, s’era infilata una sua camicia, la fermò con un gesto, le fece capire di tornare a casa. Livia obbedi. Il commissario pigliò il picciliddro per mano e principiarono a caminare a lento a lento. Per un quarto d’ora non si dissero una parola. Arrivati a una barca tirata a sicco, Montalbano s’assittò sulla rena, François gli si mise allato e il commissario gli passò un braccio attorno alle spalle.
«Iu persi a me matri ch’era macari cchiù nicu di tia» esordì.
E iniziarono a parlare, il commissario in siciliano e François in arabo, capendosi perfettamente.
Gli confidò cose che mai aveva detto a nessuno, manco a Livia.
Il pianto sconsolato di certe notti, con la testa sotto il cuscino perché suo padre non lo sentisse; la disperazione mattutina quando sapeva che non c’era sua madre in cucina a preparargli la colazione o, qualche anno dopo, la merendina per la scuola. Ed è una mancanza che non viene mai più colmata, te la porti appresso fino in punto di morte. Il bambino gli spiò se lui aveva il potere di far tornare sua madre. No, rispose Montalbano, quel potere non l’aveva nessuno. Doveva rassegnarsi. Ma tu avevi tuo padre, osservò François che era intelligente davvero e non per vanto di Livia. Già, avevo mio padre. E allora, spiò il picciliddro, lui era inevitabilmente destinato ad andare a finire in uno di quei posti dove mettono i bambini che non hanno né padre né madre?
«Questo no. Te lo prometto» disse il commissario. E gli porse la mano. François gliela strinse, taliandolo negli occhi.”
Source: The Snack Thief
“Con una mirada te puedes ahorar cien palabras”
“Con una pizca de esperanza, dándome cuenta de que, cuando creemos que es el final, en realidad puede esperarnos algo más”
Source: Perdido entre capítulos
“Con volontà rozza, animalesca, ma inflessibile le mie dita, callose e storte dalla zappa, per la prima volta ebbero l'opportunità di esprimere, alle querce secolari, la sensibilità di generazioni e generazioni mai educate alla musica. E attraverso le mie dita l'uomo delle caverne, ancora intatto dentro di me, ma sensibile in tutta la sua umanità, incominciava a raddolcirsi con la musica: a scavare dentro di sé e a scoprire che al di là dei suoi campi il mondo non finiva con l'orizzonte e che la miniera delle sue risorse sconfinava da quel cielo che fino allora conosceva.”
Source: Padre padrone
“Con él me sentía en una jodida montaña rusa, solo que, cuando ese subidón acababa, mi cuerpo se revelaba, ansiando más y más. Porque éramos dos personas que se querían mucho, pero que no lo hacían de la forma en la que merecíamos.”
Source: Estúpidamente encantador
“Conal began to taste the thought that he might live. To his surprise, it tasted good.”
Source: Demon
“Conall,” “Aye, Alexia?” He looked up at her. Was that fear in his caramel eyes? “I am going to take advantage of you,” she said”
“CONAN: “But you gotta know that I value honesty. I may not have many friends, but I’m completely loyal to those I do have. Anyone who knows me knows that my friends mean the world to me, and I’d go to war for them. I’d give my life for my brothers and those I call friends. Honesty is at the heart of trust, and trust doesn’t come easy to me. I want to trust you, my Angel, and I want you to trust me. So no secrets between us, okay?”
Source: Day Shift a Medical Romance with a Mafia Twist
“Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.”
Source: Mr. Kiss and Tell
“Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.”
“CONAN: I leaned in, keeping my voice low as the monitors beeped in the background. “I’ve got your back, pretty angel. I won’t let any more harm come to you.” It was more than a promise; it felt like a vow. Being this close to her, I couldn’t shake the feeling that fate had thrown us together for some higher purpose. Here I was, a beast, and there she was, a beauty—our lives slammed together by some twist of destiny.”
“CONAN: I stayed silent, watching her breath. I wanted to freeze time, to hold on to this moment forever. No woman had ever affected me this deeply. Maybe it was her innocence—the fact that she was a blank slate due to her amnesia, free to write her story anew without the weight of past memories. God, how I longed to help her fill those empty spaces.”
Source: Day Shift a Medical Romance with a Mafia Twist
“CONAN: “In the middle of chaos, there you were—mine to care for, mine to protect.”
A whispered vow I would keep.”
Source: Day Shift a Medical Romance with a Mafia Twist
“Conan O'Brien doesn’t have it,' the NBC lawyers assured Jeff Gaspin, Entertainment Chairman (at NBC Universal). 'Conan was guaranteed The Tonight Show. He was not guaranteed that it would start at 11:35 p.m'.”
Source: The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy
“CONAN: Soulmates, true love, and forever were just fairy tales—but then I met her.
It didn’t make sense. Hell, I’d spent my whole life dodging anything that even hinted at real feelings. I’d always been the guy who kept it light, never letting anyone get close enough to see the cracks beneath the surface. But Angel had fallen into my life—quite literally—and changed everything. When she was brought into the ED, bloody and unconscious, something had shifted inside me. I couldn’t leave her side, not then and not now.”
Source: Day Shift a Medical Romance with a Mafia Twist
“CONAN: Standing there, watching her, I felt like a damn monster—a guy covered in tattoos, each one a marker of past fights and darker days. My exterior might have been tough, but it was nothing compared to the ugliness trying to claw its way out of my heart. My childhood had left me jaded and untrusting. I had always put on a good front, acting like the easygoing golden retriever who didn’t take life too seriously. But ever since I was a kid, I’d known life mostly sucked. So why not live in the moment? If life had taught me one thing, it was that none of us were guaranteed a tomorrow.”
Source: Day Shift a Medical Romance with a Mafia Twist
“CONAN: There was something about her that drew me in deeper than I’d ever thought possible. Maybe it was how she saw me—not as some carefree playboy but as someone worth getting to know. She didn’t judge me for my past or the walls I’d built around my heart. She accepted me for who I was in this moment, and that scared the hell out of me. Yet it also made me want to protect her with everything I had.”
Source: Day Shift a Medical Romance with a Mafia Twist
“Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”
“Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“Conceal thy domestic ills.”
“Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.”
Source: The Art of War
“Conceal your learning from the company
Never display your learning, but on particular occasions. Reserve it for learned men, and let even these rather extort it from you, than appear forward to display it. Hence you will be deemed modest, and reputed to possess more knowledge than you really have. Never seem wiser or more learned than your company. The man who affects to display his learning, will be frequently questioned; and if found superficial, will be ridiculed and despised; if otherwise, he will be deemed a pedant. Nothing can lessen real merit (which will always shew itself) in the opinion of the world, but an ostentatious display by its possessor.”
“Conceal your wounds when you have any; silence is the last joy of the unhappy. Beware of giving anyone the clue to your griefs; the curious suck our tears as flies suck the blood of a wounded hart.”
Source: The Three Musketeers
“Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.”
“Concealed in every new situation we face is a spiritual lesson to be learned and a spiritual blessing for us if we learn that lesson. It is good to be tested. We grow and learn through passing tests. I look upon all my tests as good experiences. Before I was tested, I believed I would act in a loving or non-fearing way. After I was tested, I knew! Every test turned out to be an uplifting experience. And it is not important that the outcome be according to our wishes.”
“Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.”
“Concealed talent brings no reputation.”
“Concealed was the terrible dark reality, whispering to the soul.”
Source: In Between The Lines
“Concealers are like undergarments. They make you feel taller and thinner.”
“Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.”
“Concealing is the human way of pretending that we are who we imagine ourselves to be in the fairy tales we invent, that our lives have unfolded as we wish they would have rather than as they so wrenchingly do.”
Source: Just as I Am
“Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it.”
“Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.”
“Concealment is the foe of tranquility.”
“Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.”
Source: Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir
“Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear.”
“Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too.”