C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.”
“Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick.”
“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.”
Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table
“Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.”
Source: The Kingdom of the Occult
“Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.”
Source: Healology
“Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head pop off!”
“Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.”
“Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.”
“Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.”
Source: The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
“Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.”
“Controversy, though always an evil in itself, is sometimes a necessary evil.”
Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley
“Controversă
Era acel tânăr prea singur!
Dar toți îl iubeau...
- Atunci, nu era așa singur!
Sau ceilalți nu erau.”
Source: Plumb
“Contudo, ele (Fernando Pessoa) assevera que, apesar de descendente de judeus, ele, individualmente, o não é!”
Source: A Invasão dos Judeus
“Contuve la respiración unos segundos, sobrecogido. Mi hogar se postraba ante mí amenazante, como si no pudiera reconocerme.”
Source: AETERNUM (Volkov.)
“contuve mis lagrimas hasta que se hubiese marchado. ¿Por qué he de quejarme cuando no hemos hecho más que lo correcto y al fin seremos más felices por haberlo hecho?”
Source: Mujercitas
“Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.”
Source: Twenty Minutes of Reality: An Experience, with Some Illuminating Letters Concerning it
“Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.”
“Convenience at your fingertips—Walmart Pharmacy hours ensure you can get the care and medications you need when it suits you.”
“Convenience is considered as “food” and inconvenience is considered as “vitamin”.”
Source: Adjust Everywhere
“Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. It’s a disease.”
“Convenience is the American way.”
“Convenience is the gateway drug to entitlement. It drains people of their empathy, because it fosters the illusion that they can proceed through life without hardship. This makes it harder for them to imagine others who are facing hardship.”
“Convenience will put you out of business!”
Source: *57* Must Use Words in Every Piece of Marketing that You Do for Your Business
“Convenient ignorance is a common problem in the modern workplace.”
“Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.”
“Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.”
Source: The Cynic's Word Book
“Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.”
“Convention is another name for the habits of society.”
Source: The ballad and the source
“Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.”
Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses
“Convention is the ruler of all.”
“Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?”
Source: Elizabeth Bowen's Irish Stories
“Convention, so often a mask for injustice.”
Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way
“Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.”
“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.”
Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
“Conventional belief holds that after triumphing over a mid-career bout with polio, FDR went on to serve two vigorous terms as gov- ernor of New York and three-plus more as president of the United States, succumbing unexpectedly to a stroke on April 12, 1945. In truth, Franklin spent those eventful twenty-four years battling swarms of maladies including polio’s ongoing crippling effects, life-threatening gastrointestinal bleeding, two incurable cancers, severe cardiovascular disease, and epilepsy.”
Source: FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
“Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.”
“Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best.”
“Conventional, Cecil, you’re that, for you may understand beautiful things, but you don’t know how to use them; and you wrap yourself up in art and books and music, and would try to wrap up me. I won’t be stifled, not by the most glorious music, for people are more glorious, and you hide them from me.”
Source: A Room with a View
“Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments however positive, and are sometimes offered to manipulate the behavior of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration.”
“Conventional computers ARE quantum computers, intentionally designed with the limitation of only being able to operate deterministic algorithms. So is everything. Everything in physical reality is comprised of atoms that share information via time-dependent entanglement, which is all a quantum logic gate does, as well. The only thing that makes conventional computers useful is this very limitation since it filters out any signal noise that is a consequence of non-deterministic operations, including interference from background radiation -- when they're operating correctly, that is.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.”
Source: Faith and Doubt: Studies in Traditional Jewish Thought
“Conventional eating habits violate all of the rules of food combining in the preceding chapters and, since the majority of people manage to live for at least a few years and to "enjoy" their aches and pains and their frequent "spells of sickness," few of them are willing to give any intelligent consideration to their eating habits. They usually declare, when the subject of food combining comes up, that they eat all of the condemned combinations regularly and it does not hurt them. Life and death, health and disease are mere matters of accident to them. Unfortunately they are encouraged in this view by medical advisers.”
“Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.”
“Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.”
“Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.”
“conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.”
Source: The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing
“Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.”
“Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.”
“Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who relegate thinking to last place or next to last. The preference for thinking appears to have far less intellectual effect than the preference for intuition, even in some technical fields, such as scientific research, where its influence was expected to be most important.”