C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine".”
“Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.”
“Conclusión: Yo (Y) era la única que se había roto, y no sé si todavía cargo con el hueco o si me falta un pedazo.”
Source: Conjunto vacío
“concluí que hay dos claves para el trayecto: confianza y cuidado. Confianza porque la paranoia nos hace más débiles. Y cuidado porque el mundo es un lugar peligroso. Y la vida es frágil y por lo tanto hay que cuidarla.”
Source: Un lugar seguro
“Concluí que os livros nos enlevam, mas nunca o bastante, e que ao mesmo tempo que nos aproximam de uma revelação final podem nos distrair e atrasar nosso progresso.”
Source: Ironias do tempo
“Concocting a good guest list is like seasoning a gourmet sauce. Too many similar ingredients and it's bland. Too much variety in the seasoning and the result may be overpowering.”
Source: Etiquette for today
“Concord, California was a great place to grow up.”
“Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.”
“Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.”
“Concorde con lo spirito del nostro tempo, non solo non teme la contraddizione ma disprezza la coerenza.”
Source: Il fuoco che ti porti dentro
“Concrete breathes sun's heat.”
Source: Bonemeal
“Concrete cemented my mind on you.”
“Concrete examples of successful women and their stories of achievement are the best inspiration and [means of] empowerment for other women to seek the heights in their professional career and take a leading role in society.”
“Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility rendered material, hope in an industrial-strength mixer.”
“Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.”
“Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.”
“Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.”
“Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.”
Source: Penses
“Concurrent time is a state of time where all the happenings occur at the same time. The creations of the present are influenced by both the past and the future actions and all the three interact where even a future event can change what can happen in the present.”
Source: Be First: Achieve Every Dream
“Concurrently, while I was in school, while I was winning awards for acting, I was winning awards for singing, in high school. One of the reasons why I decided to continue on with the acting was the opera world is fraught with a very long process, and I did love the acting, as well. The acting took off sooner, and then you get involved with that.”
“Concurring hands divide
flax for damask
that when bleached by Irish weather
has the silvered chamois-leather
water-tightness of a
skin.”
Source: Complete Poems
“Concussion? How the hell can they tell? They're *football* players, for chrissakes!”
“Concussions is one of these pack journalism issues, frankly. There's no increase in concussions. The number is relatively small. The problem is, it is a journalist issue.”
“Concéntrate en lo que más importa: el propósito transforma el esfuerzo en impacto.”
“Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is a good measure of it. They destroyed a democracy. They squelched loans that had been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank. They did everything behind the scenes, including arming the thugs that came to overrun the country. They're frauds.”
“Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.”
“Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.”
Source: Fidel Castro Reader
“Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution, if you cannot reason nor persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force a man into it. If love will not compel him to come, leave him to God, the judge of all.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: The eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first numbers of his journal, particular of his death, review of his character, &c
“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”
Source: Practical Vedanta
“Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?”
“Condemn the offender, not the Religion.”
“Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.”
“Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.”
“Condemnation comes from guilt.
Conviction is born out of grace.
Condemnation leads you to conceal your sin.
Conviction urges you to confess it.
Condemnation results in remorse (feeling bad about what you did).
Conviction calls you to repentance (turning to go the other way).
Condemnation prompts you to rededicate.
Conviction demands full surrender.
Condemnation is a path to future failure.
Conviction is a highway to real change.”
Source: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...
“Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)”
“Condemnation without context is like music without melody—noise that drowns truth.
Example: A quiet worker may be composing resilience while others only see fatigue.”
“Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance”
“Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.”
“Condemned to Hope's delusive mine,
As on we toil from day to day,
By sudden blasts or slow decline
Our social comforts drop away.”
“Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.”
“Condemning all women in order to help some misguided men get over their foolish behaviour is tantamount to denouncing fire, which is a vital and beneficial element, just because some people are burnt by it, or to cursing water just because some people are drowned in it.”
“Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in the "struggle for social justice." What is condemned is "total war," which has no respect for the dignity of others (and consequently of oneself). It excludes reasonable compromise, does not pursue the common good but the good of a group, and sets out to destroy whatever stands in its way.”
“Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.”
Source: Healing the Shame that Binds You
“Condemning war has not curbed armed conflict. Religion and education did not eliminate war. Warfare did not terminate more wars. Armed combat simply breeds endless wars.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Condenados a vivir con personas que tienen el mayor interés en ocultarse a nuestros ojos, en disfrazar sus vicios que tienen para no ofrecernos más que las virtudes que nunca veneraron, correríamos el mayor peligro si mostrásemos únicamente franqueza;porque, entonces, es evidente que les concederíamos sobre nosotros todas las ventajas que ellos nos niegan, y el engaño sería manifiesto.”
“Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.”
Source: Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters
“Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.”
Source: Much Ado About me
“Condescending is worst more than Enmity.”
“Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.”