C Quotes
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“Conversations were struck up between strangers, regular diners as well as infrequent customers, as if united by a sense of gratitude at the sheer unlikeliness of it all - a high achievement of industrial civilisation that deserved to remain for everyone, but which has now gone the way of the airship and the ocean liner. Much of the nostalgia concerning railways is partial, even false; not this.
[On British railway dining cars]”
Source: The Railways: Nation, Network and People
“Conversations with current and former gamblers offer a portrait of the standard trajectory of a bettor whose life becomes uprooted by gambling. The story begins with a young male sports fan enticed by a sign-up promotion in a sportsbook advertisement. He probably wins his first bet—as Kyle did—which provides a huge rush of dopamine and an overconfidence that will be almost impossible to shake. Eventually he loses and starts to chase his losses, which over 50 percent of all bettors and over 60 percent of young bettors admit they have done. While chasing, he loses more than he intended. Maybe he stops betting, or maybe he keeps chasing for a few hours or a few days. When the clouds clear, he might be a few hundred or thousand dollars poorer, but he has learned firsthand the dangers of careless betting. Others will have stories more like Kyle’s. They will fall farther down the rabbit hole for longer periods in ways that damage their financial security and mental health. Still others will develop full-blown addictions that will be with them permanently, their lives fully derailed by gambling. If they are lucky, their losses will only be financial.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Conversations with him are always pleasant. He has a lot of wisdom to offer this world. This is a precious man whose presence is priceless. His presence turns conversations into treasures—moments that create precious memories that last forever.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.”
“Conversations worth having energize people. They foster efficiency, fuel meaningful engagement, and generate creative possibilities.”
Source: Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement
“Conversations worth having enliven people, strengthen relationships, unleash creativity, and move organizations forward fast.”
Source: Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement
“Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art that speaks from some place other than your own. So I'm using the word 'conversation' not only for literal talk but also as a metaphor for engagement with the experience and ideas of others. And I stress the role of the imagination here because the encounters, properly conducted, are valuable in themselves. Conversation doesn't have to lead to consensus about anything, especially not values; it's enough that it helps people get used to one another.”
“Conversaţia femeii era limitată, dar o dată ce intra în sfera vieţii ei, se însufleţea brusc. Poate că tot asta era şi calea spre inima ei.”
Source: The Woman in the Dunes
“Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.”
Source: Lays and legends of ancient Greece: with other poems
“Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.”
Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster
“Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but it´s such a nothing.”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.”
“Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.”
“Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.”
“Conversely, the most powerful thing an actor can say is "no." If something is presented and it's a stereotypical role or something, you can say no to that, and that's very powerful.”
“Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.”
“Conversing with life is uneasy.”
“Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.”
Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
“Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a man has once been kindled at the cross of Christ, he is bound to shine.”
“Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost.”
“Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living.”
“Conversion does not mean a change of outward appearance; rather it requires a change of mind and results in a transformed life.”
“Conversion engages the mind as well as the emotions.”
“Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.”
“Conversion, investing and maximizing your time should be paramount over every other thing”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.”
Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ
“Conversion is a daily thing.”
“Conversion is a measure of how much you are able to convert your time into added value”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.”
“Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father regarding those we bring into the Church.”
“Conversion is a work above man's power... Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must despair of doing it in your own strength. It is a resurrection from the dead, a new creation, a work of absolute omnipotence... Conversion is a supernatural work.”
“Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.”
“Conversion is essential, but it is a beginning, not an end. The believer in Jesus Christ is not simply rescued from the penalty of his sin; he is redeemed to love God and his neighbor so that others might come to know him.”
“Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.”
Source: The William James Reader
“Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on a patch of holiness; but, with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles and practice.”
Source: Alarm to the Unconverted
“Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down, and erects a new structure... The sincere Christian is quite a new fabric, from the foundation to the top-stone. He is a new man, a new creature; all things are become new. Conversion is a deep work, a heart work. It makes a new man in a new world. It extends to the whole man, to the mind, to the members, to the motions of the whole life.”
“Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not”
Source: The Dialogues of Plato
“Conversion is not just the puny act of repenting for the sins of the past: it is to turn in the direction of an entirely new reality, the 'kingdom of God', and throw oneself into creating a new way of life.”
Source: Zen and the Bible
“Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.”
“Conversion is not only changing the faith. Conversion is changing the heart and working over there is the grace of God. Then only comes the question of change of faith. Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets.”
“Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.”
Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS
“Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.”
“Conversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace.”
“Conversion is the act of joining our hands to the pierced hand of the crucified Saviour. The new life begins with the taking of Christ's hand, and His taking hold, in infinite love, of our weak hands.”
“Conversion is the key to Greatness”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Conversion is the key to maintaining wealth”
“Conversion is the prove that your life is been driven by purpose”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Conversion is the secret to all great investments”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Conversion is the work of the Holy Spirit.”
“Conversion must result in a change of attitude and values. Otherwise, it is no conversion. If you say, “I now love Jesus, but I still hate certain people,” you do not really love Jesus.”
Source: The Journey: Spiritual Growth in Galatians and Philippians