C Quotes
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“Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.”
“Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.”
Source: The Carpet People
“Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.”
“Correct opinions well established on any subject are the best preservative against the seduction of error.”
“Correct," she said,
"but I don't think he even realizes it. You
probably encounter people like him all the time. High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.
What was it in this statement that made Clark want to weep? He was nodding, taking down as much as he could. "Do you think he'd describe himself as unhappy in his work?"
"No," Dahlia said, "because I think people like him think work is supposed to be drudgery punctuated by very occasional moments of happiness, but when I say happiness, I mostly mean distraction.
You know what I mean?"
"No, please elaborate.»
"Okay, say you go into the break room," she said, "and a couple people you like are there, say someone's telling a funny story, you laugh a little, you feel included, everyone's so funny, you go back to your desk with a sort of, I don't know, I guess afterglow would be the word? You go back to your desk with an afterglow, but then by four or five o'clock the day's just turned into yet another day, and you go on like that, looking forward to five o'clock and then the weekend and then your two or three annual weeks of paid vacation time, day in day out, and that's what happens to your life."
"Right," Clark said. He was filled in that moment with an inexpressible longing.”
Source: Station Eleven
“Correct spelling, correct punctuation, correct grammar. Hundreds of rules for itsy-bitsy people. No one could remember all that stuff and concentrate on what he was trying to write about. It was all table manners, not derived from any sense of kindness or decency or humanity, but originally from an egotistic desire to look like gentlemen and ladies. Gentlemen and ladies had good table manners and spoke and wrote grammatically. It was what identified one with the upper classes. In Montana, however, it didn’t have this effect at all. It identified one, instead, as a stuck-up Eastern ass.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.”
Source: American Language Supplement 2
“Correct the individual instead of trying to “baby-proof” the world.”
Source: Sophizo
“Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!”
Source: VOLUME 2 APPETIZERS DESSERTS AND BAKED GOODS JOY OF COOKING
“Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.”
Source: Bunts
“Correct your mistake as soon as you have found it.”
“Correct your mistakes in you, don't correct your mistakes in me”
“Correct. President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war”
“Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.”
“Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.”
“Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.”
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“Correction,' he said, and then he laughed as the trickle of blood seeped down his neck. It wasn't a harsh laugh or a patronizing one. He sounded amused. 'You're an absolutely stunning, murderous little creature.' Pausing, he glanced down. 'Nice weapon. Bloodstone and wolven bone. Very interesting...' His gaze flicked up. 'Princess.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“Correction is the mothertongue of truth.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Correction is the tool for creating better from worse. Make the best use of it!”
Source: Become a Better You
“Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.”
“Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.”
“Corrective judgment raises Christ from the dead.”
Source: Corrective Judgment: The Program of God for Us
“Correctly identifying a negative emotion takes the brain out of fight-or-flight mode and into problem-solving mode, out of tension, anger and confusion and into ease, calm and clarity.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.”
“Correggio, Caravaggio, Titian, Tintoretto. In them she saw distance and cruelty. Bodies pierced, flayed, crucified. A parade of morbid flesh.”
Source: The Kills
“Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to have the same set of policies. In reality, you have differences in policies. That reflects back to that whole process of manual storing in the environment.”
“Correlation and causality. Why is it that throughout the animal kingdom and in every human culture, males account for most aggression and violence? Well, what about testosterone and some related hormones, collectively called androgens, a term that unless otherwise noted, I will use simplistically as synonymous with testosterone. In nearly all species, males have more circulating testosterone than do females, who secrete small amounts of androgens from the adrenal glands. Moreover, male aggression is most prevalent when testosterone levels are highest; adolescence and during mating season in seasonal breeders. Thus, testosterone and aggression are linked. Furthermore, there are particularly high levels of testosterone receptors in the amygdala, in the way station by which it projects to the rest of the brain, the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, and in its major targets, the hypothalamus, the central gray of the mid-brain, and the frontal cortex. But these are merely correlative data. Showing that testosterone causes aggression requires a subtraction plus a replacement experiment. Subtraction, castrate a male: do levels of aggression decrease? Yes, including in humans. This shows that something coming from the testes causes aggression. Is it testosterone? Replacement: give that castrated individual replacement testosterone. Do pre-castration levels of aggression return? Yes, including in humans, thus testosterone causes aggression. Time to see how wrong that is. The first hint of a complication comes after castration. When average levels of aggression plummet in every species, but crucially, not to zero, well, maybe the castration wasn't perfect, you missed some bits of testes, or maybe enough of the minor adrenal androgens are secreted to maintain the aggression. But no, even when testosterone and androgens are completely eliminated, some aggression remains, thus some male aggression is testosterone independent. This point is driven home by castration of some sexual offenders, a legal procedure in a few states. This is accomplished with chemical castration, administration of drugs that either inhibit testosterone production or block testosterone receptors. Castration decreases sexual urges in the subset of sex offenders with intense, obsessive, and pathological urges. But otherwise, castration doesn't decrease recidivism rates as stated in one meta-analysis. Hostile rapists and those who commit sex crimes motivated by power or anger are not amenable to treatment with the anti-androgenic drugs. This leads to a hugely informative point. The more experience the male had being aggressive prior to castration, the more aggression continues afterward. In otherwise, the less his being aggressive in the future requires testosterone and the more it's a function of social learning.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’”
“Correlation is not causation.”
“Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.”
“Correlationism rejects metaphysical realism understood as the claim that the way the world is does not depend on how we take things to be. It also rejects the Cartesian corollary, i.e., the claim that the way the mind is does not depend on the way the world is.”
“Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.”
“Correlativament a l'etimologisme, en anglès i francès s'expressen encara les mentalitats més euroescèptiques... dins de les societats amb més dualització juvenil; i, ep!: on el mosaic de llengües medievals ha quedat anorreat per una única llengua oficial moderna, imperialment opressiva —tan dificultosa d'escriure per als propis parlants, tan indefugible per als diglòssics autoodiant-se.”
“Correr rápido es una cosa y hace lo mejor que puedes otra”
Source: Hello, Habits: A Minimalist's Guide to a Better Life
“Correr rápido es una cosa y hacerlo mejor que puedes es otra.”
Source: Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
“Correre significa avere la determinazione necessaria per provare a superare l'obiettivo che ci si è prefissate, e la forza di accettare l'occasionale insuccesso. Avere l'intuito per capire quali amici staranno sotto il sole a picco o la pioggia ghiacciata solo per riuscire a intravedervi un attimo, risollevandovi il morale per i prossimi chilometri. Correre vi permette di rendere più profondi certi legami familiari che neanche sapevate di avere. È la disciplina che vi induce a fare il necessario per arrivare alla meta. È il coraggio di lasciare la persona che amate nel tepore del letto, sperando che vi ami ancora quando tornate, un'ora dopo, sudate e insoddisfatte. È la convinzione incrollabile degli altri, sicuri che ce la possiate fare anche quando voi siete convinte del contrario, e il dono di manifestare la stessa certezza quando qualcun altro dubita di sé. Correre è stabilire un contatto con una persona mai vista prima che potrebbe averne bisogno, perché soffre accanto a voi durante una gara oppure in un letto d'ospedale all'altro capo del mondo. È sfidare le convenzioni, decidere chi siete e prendere l'iniziativa di diventare quella persona. È l'abbraccio di uno sconosciuto e la comprensione totale da parte di chi vi ama di più.
Correre vi fa crescere il cuore.”
Source: Running Like a Girl
“Corresponder aos sentimentos de alguém sempre significa entregar um pouco de você mesmo para o outro.”
Source: Mensageira da Sorte
“Correvano insieme per le strade, assorbendo tutto in quella primitiva maniera che avevano, e che più tardi diventò tanto più triste e ricettiva e vuota. Ma allora danzavano lungo le strade leggeri come piume, e io arrancavo loro appresso come ho fatto tutta la mia vita con la gente che mi interessa, perché per me l’unica gente possibile sono i pazzi, quelli che sono pazzi di vita, pazzi per parlare, pazzi di essere salvati, vogliosi di ogni cosa allo stesso tempo, quelli che mai sbadigliano o dicono un luogo comune, ma bruciano, bruciano, bruciano come favolosi fuochi artificiali color giallo che esplodono come ragni traverso le stelle e nel mezzo si vede la luce azzurra dello scoppio centrale e tutti fanno Ohhhhh.”
Source: On the Road
“Corrie's birth resonated in Britain, and Australia gained some of the liveliest publicity since the battle of El Alamein. In the thick of war, this clearly ruffled the London Daily Telegraph who published a local rhymester's verse in their columns:
Hush-a-bye Platypus,
Pride of the Zoo
Baby shall figure in Nature's Who's Who,
Mummy will fondle and Daddy will brag
While all the zoologists' tongues are a-wag.
Shush, little mammal, you're nor all that smart, This is no time to expect a star part, Sleep—and remove that smirk off your bill We are making more history than you ever will.
'Australian jungle fighters', huffed the paper 'will doubtless agree'.”
Source: Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World
“Corrigan crept up to the bar, cautiously moving around it. It looked like he was copying all the moves he’d seen in old cop movies and westerns, and doing it rather badly. He lowered the pistol. There was no one behind the bar. There was however, an open trapdoor. And that would mean the bounty hunter was - .
“Don’t move!” Came Beck’s distant, slightly muffled, barked order. “My turn, I think!”
Source: Black Sunrise
“Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. If He had rejected it, He would have been rejecting mystery. And if He rejected mystery, He would have been rejecting faith.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“Corrijam-se mutuamente, não com ódio, mas com paz, como vocês têm no Evangelho. E ninguém fale com nenhuma pessoa que tenha ofendido o próximo; que essa pessoa não escute nenhuma palavra de vocês, até que se tenha arrependido.”
Source: Patrística - Padres Apostólicos
“Corrijo erros, aperfeiçoo acertos e invento a graça.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Corrijo meu humor vendo breakfast at Tiffany's.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Corrival looked around. 'So is this it? Is everyone here? Erskine, maybe you should start the ball rolling. I have places to go and things to do.' 'Me?' Ravel asked. 'Why do I have to start it? You're the most respected mage here. You start it, or Skulduggery.' Skulduggery shook his head. 'I can't start it. I don't like most of these people. I might start shooting.”
“Corrupt and incompetent cops are making the world a dangerous place for good and honest police officers.”
“Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government.”
“Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.”