C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?”
“Can you open and close the gate of Heaven and act like a woman?”
“Can you pay your way to heaven with credit? After all most people behaved like they can, otherwise why would they seem so fixated on accumulating and accumulating?”
Source: 2017: Our Summer of Reunions: Braai Seasons with Howl Gang (Howl Gang Legend)
“Can you-
Phil, can you name something that teenage girls can be interested in without being made fun of?
This really bothers me.
You know when we're talking about things that really annoy us in modern media this is the one for me.
Teenage girls have nothing they can be interested in without being mocked...
and I think that's hella unfair.”
“Can you picture it?’ she said so softly I scarcely heard. ‘A coven of children? That is all I could provide…”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“Can you picture my prophecy?”
“Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?”
“Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages' worth of quotes and turn them into a usable story ten minutes before deadline? I don't think so, unless you have more hidden talents I don't know about. We all have our special sills. They don't make us better or worse than each other. Just different”
“Can you play with fire without being burnt?”
“Can you please come find me? I'm ready to die in your arms.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you”
Source: The Lyrics: 1961-2012
“Can you please leave my ear alone? You gonna take care of it when it falls off from all the chomping you do on it every day?"
"I'll just give you mine. My eyes, my ears, and my heart, too...I can give you everything if you ever need it, my sweet fox. So...keep staying by my side, like you are right now.”
Source: Totally Captivated, Volume 5
“Can you please tell me who you people are?"
"Criminals. Offenders. Monsters. We've all been imprisoned in Tartarus for discretions committed against the gods of Olympus."
~ Hope/Daedalus, The River Styx”
Source: The River Styx
“Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to accept yourself as an imperfect human being with limited knowledge and realize that you will at times make mistakes, or you can hate yourself for it.”
“Can you promise me something? Can you promise me you'll live a good life? A full life, a happy one. Live well, and do it for him, because he can't anymore.”
“Can you prove to me that there's no God, professor?'
'I could prove there is no need for a god, which is the next best thing. The Big Bang is the explanation. The Big Bang followed by billions of years of evolution by natural selection.'
'But what was there before the Big Bang?'
'Nothing.'
'Surely that is based on belief, too. You believe there was nothing. You cannot prove it.'
'Just as there are laws of physics, so there are laws of biology and the main one, the one which explains every living thing on the planet - and every planet in the universe, for that matter - is that all things must start simply and become complex. The complex dolphin began its evolutionary journey hundreds of millions of years ago as a simple, single-celled prokaryote. For a god to create the universe he would have to be hyper intelligent. But intelligence only evolves over time. The argument for a god starts by assuming what it is attempting to explain - intelligence, complexity, it amounts to the same thing - and so it explains nothing. God is a non-explanation. The Big Bang followed by billions of years of evolution is an explanation.”
Source: The Blasphemer
“Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?”
“Can you read that? someone behind me said.
I can. What does it mean? I said.
It means you shouldn't be here and you'd better go back to where you came from fast, the girl said.
If that's what it says then it's telling the story of my life, I said.”
Source: Gliff
“Can you read?" the boy said at last.
"Of course," said Arrietty. "Can't you?"
"No," he stammered. "I mean--yes. I mean I've just come from India."
"What's that got to do with it?" asked Arrietty.
"Well, if you're born in India, you're bilingual. And if you're bilingual, you can't read. Not so well."
Arrietty stared up at him: what a monster, she thought, dark against the sky.
"Do you grow out of it?" she asked.
He moved a little and she felt the cold flick of his shadow.
"Oh yes," head said, "it wears off. My sisters were bilingual; now they aren't a bit. They could read any of those books upstairs in the schoolroom."
"So could I," said Arrietty quickly, "if someone could hold them, and turn the pages. I'm not a bit bilingual. I can read anything.”
Source: Borrowers
“Can you read this word, Peter?'
...'It says GOD.'
'Yes, that's right. Now write it backward and see what you find.'
...'DOG! Mamma! It says DOG!'
'Yes. It says dog.' The sadness in her voice quenched Peter's excitement at once. His mother pointed from GOD to DOG. 'These are the two natures of man,' she said. 'Never forget them... Our preachers say that our natures are partly of God and partly of Old Man Splitfoot... But there are few devils outside of made-up stories, Pete -- most bad people are more like dogs than devils. Dogs are friendly and stupid, and that's the way most men and women are when they are drunk. When dogs are excited and confused, they may bite; when men are excited and confused, they may fight. Dogs are great pets because they are loyal, but if a pet is all a man is, he is a bad man, I think. Dogs can be brave, but they may also be cowards that will howl in the dark or run away with their tails between their legs. A dog is just as eager to lick the hand of a bad master as he is to lick the hand of a good one, because dogs don't know the difference between good and bad.”
Source: The Eyes of the Dragon
“Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds? … It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless, tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beauty and grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being.”
Source: Moralia
“Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ideas, however obscure, of the universe as a whole?”
Source: Œuvres complètes - 109 titres et annexes
“Can you really crush stone?” Angel asked. “Or was that a lie?”
Without looking behind him, David slammed his fist into one of the marble columns. It cracked, and several chunks immediately crumbled loose to scatter to the tiled floor like crumbs of flaking pastry. “Elevators,” he said. “This way.”
“Jesus Christ,” Angel said to Cassandra. “He doesn’t look scary, but he’s fucking terrifying.”
Source: Dragon Queen
“Can you really drop up to 11 pounds from your body (and belly) in just 7 days (and keep losing
it at a record pace for weeks to come)?
Believe it or not…the answer is a shocking YES! (And you don’t have to starve yourself or do
endless exercise…and you can still eat your favorite foods. In fact, it’s an important part of the
program…YIPPEEE!)”
“Can you really forgive if you can't forget?”
“Can you really put a price on annoying two religions at once?”
“Can you really see and hear Him, or is He still the Unknown God to you? It’s time for an awakening.”
“Can you really see different things in a painting from day to day?" This seemed to genuinely interest the duke. She wasn't certain which part of it fascinated him most, the fact that a painting could change or that she thought it could.
"Well, it isn't like a crystal ball. Whereby you see shifting images and the like. But haven't you ever looked at a painting for a length of time, or on more than one occasion, and experienced it differently each time?"
Where to begin explaining art to someone who seemed to know nothing about it? Now, if she were dancing with Harry...
"Of course. As a young man touring the Continent, I once looked at 'length' at a painting called 'Venus and Mars' by an Italian painter called Veronese. Do you know it? Venus is nude as the day she was born, and Mars is entirely clothed and down on his knees in front of her, and it looks as though Mars is about to give her a pleasuring. And there are cherubs hanging about. I looked at it for quite some time."
A... pleasuring. 'God above.'
He had her attention now.
She was speechless.
Everything was astonishing about what he'd just said. She stared up at him, her mind exploding with vivid images, her cheeks going increasingly hotter. She knew the painting. She knew 'precisely' where Mars was kneeling in front of Venus.
The duke had said it purposely.
Suddenly she was acutely aware of her five senses, as though they were blinking on, one by one, like fireflies in the dark. Most particularly vivid was touch. She was potently aware of his hands: the one resting with firm assurance against her waist, warm there now through the fine silk of her gown, the other enfolding hers. She was acutely aware of his size, and everything that was masculine to her feminine.
Goodness. He could certainly look at her for a long time without blinking.”
Source: What I Did for a Duke
“Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?”
“Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?”
“Can you remember another time when your chest felt like this?”
My fingers splayed across my aching chest as I carefully pondered her
question. Then I nodded vigorously as I remembered. Tears streamed down my cheeks unchecked as I whispered hoarsely, “Yes, I do remember.After my husband died, it hurt like this. My chest felt full and heavy, and I thought then, Oh, this is what it feels like to have your heart break.”
Source: Refined by Fire: A Journey of Grief and Grace
“Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could live beyond your sphere of being, that held in it far more potential than you ever realized you were imbuing in the work?”
“Can you remember the last time you were in love? Your heart went ahhh. It was such a wonderful feeling. It’s the same thing with loving yourself except that you will never leave. Once you have your love for yourself, it’s with you for the rest of your life, so you want to make it the best relationship you can have.”
“Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.”
“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”
“Can you remember? when we thought
the poets taught how to live?”
Source: Your Native Land, Your Life
“Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?”
Source: The Complete Works of Horace
“Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?”
Source: Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall
“Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.”
Source: Alice Through the Looking Glass
“Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe [Andrei] your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.”
“Can you say something about nothing?”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“Can you say whether Supreme Knowledge (‘Brahmavidya’) can be obtained by ‘Gyanyoga’, ‘Bhaktiyoga’ and ‘Karmayoga’? No! This knowledge cannot be achieved by those yogas.
There is one yoga and that is Rajyoga, and this yoga is manifested within the human body spontaneously. The Vedic Rishis (Sages) termed it as ‘Paravidya’, which cannot be obtained by ‘Gyanyoga’, ‘Karmayoga’ and ‘Bhaktiyoga’.”
“Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island!”
“Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven?" Her eyes welled. "Can Rome with all its knowledge be so foolish? Oh Marcus, you can't carve God in stone. You can't limit him to a temple. You can't imprison him on a mountaintop. Heaven is his throne; earth, his footstool. Everything you see is his. Empires will rise and empires will fall. Only God prevails.”
Source: Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection
“Can you see God? You haven't seen him? I've never seen the wind.
I see the effects of the wind, but I've never seen the wind. There's a mystery to it.”
“can you see how amazing the Sun in Winter? so beautiful like a miracle", and he looked at me and said "The Sun is like a miracle just in Winter, but you are a mirace in my life".”
“can you see how amazing the Sun in Winter? so beautiful like a miracle", and he looked at me and said "The Sun is like a miracle just in Winter, but you are a miracle in my life”
“Can you see how intimately we are all connected? Can you relate to each and every thought, word and deed you carry out and every detail of life that you experience? It is your own creation.”
Source: Lessons from My Garden
“Can you see me― floating among
those star fuelled dreams― stripped
back to atoms across the night
sky in iridescent tones― of nimble highs―”
Source: Under the Rose
“Can you see me inside out?
My soul and not my garter?
My screams and not my heels?”
Source: Polaro!D, #1