C Quotes
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“Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.”
“Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.”
“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.”
“Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.”
Source: The Critic as Artist (Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything)
“Conversation starters. Icebreakers. Openers. However you choose to label them, that moment when the first words come out of your mouth can make or break the outcome of your entire conversation. Been there, done that, right?”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Conversation Starters.
Your first words will not only shape your first impression, but they can create amazing connections, lead you to your dream job, or help you discover a new best friend.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Conversation takes practice; the more we do it, the better we get, and the more easily we do it.”
“Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversation is pleasurable. The stutterer finds talking painful, and the listener is equally pained. Persons who are inhibited in expressing feeling are not good conversationalists. Nothing is more boring than to listen to a person talk in a monotone without feeling. We enjoy a conversation when there is a communication of feeling. We have pleasure in expressing our feelings, and we respond pleasurably to another person's expression of feeling. The voice, like the body, is a medium through which feeling flows, and when this flow occurs in an easy and rhythmic manner, it is a pleasure both to the speaker and listener.”
Source: Pleasure: A Creative Approach To Life
“Conversation was irrelevant. Only pie mattered.”
“Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."”
“Conversation was strictly limited to functional needs and 'scurrilous and shameful words' and laughter were altogether prohibited, regulations especially relevant to a recurring theme in the Rule: the need to avoid displays of anger, malice, or grumbling, or reminiscences about past sexual conquests. 'Every idle word is known to generate sin.”
Source: The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple
“Conversation was tempting, but dangerous.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Conversation with a Butterfly:
You see one day I was sitting on the porch all to myself,
Contemplating on what to do, I had no money, no wealth,
That's when I saw a butterfly come down from the sky,
With wings so beautiful, so pleasant to the eye,
I wanted to touch them, but I thought twice,
I knew my fingerprint alone could create just a slight,
Unevenness in her weight, which would surely affect her flight,
I told the butterfly that she was lovely and brought me some cheer,
But it would soon leave when she disappeared,
You see I wish I could soar, and have wings such as yours,
I wish I could be as wealthy as she is beautiful and so much more,
The butterfly just looked with a tear in her eye,
I wasn't always this beautiful and I am at the end of my life,
This is just the reward of a long struggle,
I never gave up and now I am humble,
I never complained about where God placed me,
You see he gave me struggles and doors placed just for me,
I knew that I couldn't have what others had so I focused on my own,
I never gave up and now others envy me alone,
Not knowing what I had to go through for the finished product,
I just hung true to my faith and that for me was enough,
So don't get stuck in my life because you don't know it,
Work your process and the end result will show it,
That you and I are the same,
See you are a butterfly, just by a different name,”
“Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Conversation with animals could happen, but I think it would be easier for it to happen with creatures we share a bit more with - those that have been bred to interact with us, like dogs or horses, or ones to whom we have a natural evolutionary link, like chimps and other nonhuman apes. I mean, we do communicate with dolphins and whales, but we're not trying to get to the depths of their understandings. I feel that with animals as different from us as the whales and dolphins, it's likely to work better with us just watching them and trying to figure them out.”
“Conversation with fools is like driving on a road full of black ice. Only mindfulness can help you avoid skidding and falling into an argument ditch.”
Source: Quantraz
“Conversation without you trying to be sexy can still come off as very sexy. Trust me!”
“Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.”
“Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.”
“Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.”
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs
“Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”
“Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.”
“Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)
“Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.”
“Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.”
“Conversational Chameleon
We know that chameleons are lizards who are famous for their ability to change their colors and fit in as their environments require. This ability enables them to change themselves for safety, survival, and healthy well-being. Their colors adjust to reflect their mood, their surroundings, and serve as camouflage when necessary. Fossils prove they have been on this planet for over eighty million years, so they must be doing something right. Their innate ability for adaptability deserves appreciation, respect, and further consideration. It obviously works!”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Conversational intelligence is hard-wired into every single human-being's cells. It's the way the cells engage with each other. Believe it or not, cells talk to each other. The immune system talks to the cells.”
“Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.”
“Conversations about class are resisted in part because there is a tendency to imagine that one's class reflects upon one's character. What is key to America's understanding of class is the persistent belief - despite all evidence to the contrary - that anyone, with the proper discipline and drive, can move from a lower class to a higher class. We recognize that mobility may be difficult, but the key to our collective self-image is the assumption that mobility is always possible, so failure to move up reflects on one's character.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Conversations about films are always funny. I would say a majority of people want to talk about what were the more obvious successes; the big box office films. Other people wanting to be more sensitive to you want to talk about the ones that maybe didn't make a lot of money, but they think you might have a special feeling about. And then other people sometimes want to help you by suggesting that you should have done this or that in the movie, that that would have helped you a great deal in whatever capacity.”
“Conversations about things as important as one’s chaotic emotions come from trust and a proven record that the other person can handle it. The honest mirror of a connected partner is a valuable and powerful learning opportunity.”
Source: Circles of Separation: A Spiritual Fiction Series
“Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.”
“Conversations are almost like breathing. Much of the time we are unaware of the nature of our conversations and their impact on our experience of being in a relationship and in the world.”
Source: Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement
“Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.”
“Conversations are like dances. Two people effortlessly move in step with one another, usually anticipating the other person's next move. If one of the dancers moves in an unexpected direction, the other typically adapts and builds on the new approach. As with dancing, it is often difficult to tell who is leading and who is following in that the two people are constantly affecting each other. And once the dance begins, it is almost impossible for one person to singly dictate the couple's movement.”
“Conversations are like movies. There has to be a villain to make them interesting. Often it’s difficult to find a safe, distant and common villain. Our desire to have a conversation is so strong that we end up making someone close to us a villain.
“Mom, your favourite child did this.” “Dear husband, your mother did this.” “Son, your wife did this.”
These are just attempts of a human mind to do an interesting conversation but they end up in a full fledged drama at home.”
“Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.”
“Conversations between friends are the craziest and funniest of all.”
“Conversations between parents and kids are important, about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.”
“Conversations between people can move like tennis games, swift and unpredictable. There are constant subtle visual and verbal cues, there's innuendo, sarcasm, body language, tone. Everyone occasionally fumbles an encounter, a victim of social clumsiness. It's part of being human.”
Source: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.”
“Conversations happen quite often in life. As a writer and a poet, I like listening rather than talking. Somehow the conversations come out quite interesting. As a writer, I don't judge anyone. Because we are all humans and nobody can be totally perfect. In fact, perfect people do not make interesting characters in stories. And invariably I like to listen to the life stories and instances of the people whom I meet in life. Most people trust me and tell me their life stories. And the people I meet shape the characters and the stories that I write.”
“Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.”
“Conversations, much like Saturday Night Live skits, are often difficult to end.”
Source: Stuff Christians Like: Sometimes the Stuff That Comes with Faith Is Funny
“Conversations that stir the mind are bound to stir the soul.”
Source: The Sunrise Scrolls: To Life from the Shadows II
“Conversations that value and connect people, uncover what is working, and stimulate images of the ideal future foster many of these emotions.”
Source: Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement
“Conversations went smoothly only when they occurred in your head.”
Source: Stamerenophobia