C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Contentment is the absence of strife and struggle. Happiness does not exist. It is the illusion of perfection that cannot exist, not even in dreams. To chase happiness is futile and leads only to misery. Search only for contentment instead. - The Malwatch”
“Contentment is the charm of life.”
“Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.”
“Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are. Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non-acceptance. A wants to become B - that is discontent. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B - that is contentment.”
“Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.”
Source: The Resolution for Women, LeatherTouch
“Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise in the Hereafter.”
“Contentment is the greatest joy.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Contentment is the only asset that tournament cannot undersell or destroy.”
“Contentment is the only real wealth.”
“Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.”
“Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.”
“Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.”
“Contentment keeps the mind & soul under control”
“Contentment leads to cheerfulness.”
“Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.”
“Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.”
“Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
“Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.”
Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste
“Contentment seems almost a happiness happier than happy because it's happy without reason. I for one am a shamefully happy person - a person so happy that he doesn't long for company when he doesn't have it.”
“Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.”
“Contentment should not be confused with smugness… Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures.”
Source: Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
“Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.”
“Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.”
“Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make. Contentment does not mean that we never want to see change or improvement, but it does mean we can be happy where we are and will do the best we can with what we have. It also means we will maintain an attitude that allows us to enjoy the gift of life.”
“Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.”
Source: Aesop's Fables 01-30 (伊索寓言（第一篇至第三十篇）)
“Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.”
Source: Enchiridion
“Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding. It is the outcome of my will being brought into subjection to the Divine will. It is the blessed assurance that God does all things well, and is, even now, making all things work together for my ultimate good.”
“Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.”
“Contentment: The smother of invention.”
“Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.”
“Contests were so pertinent that you had to think that way but today, it's not like that. You have your contest skaters, you have your video skaters, you have your skaters who don't like either of them, but they all are sponsored and get paid.”
“Contestó Jesús: 'En verdad les digo que antes que Abrahán existiera, Yo soy'. - Evangelio según San Juan, 8:58.”
“Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.”
Source: A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal
“Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.”
“Context is everything in both narrative and real life, and while the accusation is never that these creators deliberately set out to discriminate against gay and female characters, the unavoidable implication is that they should have known better than to add to the sum total of those stories which, en masse, do exactly that. And if the listmakers can identify the trend so thoroughly – if, despite all the individual qualifications, protests and contextualisations of the authors, these problems can still be said to exist – then the onus, however disconnected from the work of any one individual, nonetheless falls to those individuals, in their role as cultural creators, to acknowledge the problem; to do better next time; perhaps even to apologise. This last is a particular sticking point. By and large, human beings tend not to volunteer apologies for things they perceive to be the fault of other people, for the simple reason that apology connotes guilt, and how can we feel guilty – or rather, why should we – if we’re not the ones at fault? But while we might argue over who broke a vase, the vase itself is still broken, and will remain so, its shards ground into the carpet, until
someone decides to clean it up.
Blog Post: Love Team Freezer”
“Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.”
Source: Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel
“Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.”
“Context is to data what water is to a dolphin”
“Context makes analytics actionable.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Context overrides. In different contexts, cells do different things.”
“Context shapes who you are.”
“Context: Sidra, a sentient AI is talking:
All of you do this. Every organic sapien I’ve ever talked to, every book I’ve read, every piece of art I’ve studied—you are all desperate for purpose, even though you don’t have one. You’re animals, and animals don’t have a purpose. Animals just are.
There are a lot of intelligent, sentient—maybe—animals out there who don’t have a problem with that. They just go on breathing and mating and eating each other without a second thought. But animals like you—the ones who make tools and build cities and itch to explore—you all share a need for purpose, for reason.
That thinking worked well for you once, when you climbed down out of the trees or up out of the ocean. Knowing what things were for was what kept you alive. Fruit is for eating, fire is for warmth, water is for drinking. Then you made tools, which were for certain kinds of fruit, for making fire, cleaning water… Everything was for something, so obviously you had to be for something too, right?
All of your histories are the same in essence: they’re all stories of animals warring because you can’t agree on what you’re for or why you exist. And because you all think this way, when you built tools that think for themselves, we think the same way you do. You couldn’t make something that thought differently because you don’t know how. So I’m stuck in that loop, just as you are. I know that if I am a person, I have no purpose—and I’m starving for one.”
Source: A Closed and Common Orbit
“Contextual awareness represents a continuum of behaviors, which illustrates how and why groups of people unite or divide among cultures.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Contextualism is only the flipside of logocentrism.”
Source: Postmetaphysical Thinking: Philosophical Essays
“Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.”
“Contigo vivo, / Pulmones, te respiro. / Sin ti, perdido.”
Source: Mia Vita: Aria Jivana en mi corazón.
“Contiguity brings into sharper focus our essential separatedness.”
“contiguous, adj.
I felt silly for even mentioning it, but once I did, I knew I had to explain.
"When I was a kid, "I had this puzzle with all fifty states on it--you know, the kind where you have to fit them all together. And one day I got it in my head that California and Nevada were in love. I told my mom, and she had no idea what I was talking about. I ran and got those two pieces and showed it to her--California and Nevada, completely in love. So a lot of the time when we're like this"--my ankles against the backs of your ankles, my knees fitting into the backs of your knees, my thighs on the backs of your legs, my stomach against your back, my chin folding into your neck--"I can't help but think about California and Nevada, and how we're a lot like them. If someone were drawing us from above as a map. that's what we'd look like; that's how we are."
For a moment, you were quiet. And then you nestled in and whispered.
"Contiguous."
And I knew you understood.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.”
“Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.”