C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Couches and tables and beds don’t make a home. Home is where you feel less alone.”
Source: Itsy's Ugly
“Cougar jokes are now as hackneyed as airplane food.”
“Cougars are all the rage! I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture. That's when a woman's in her peak. That's when she's hot. She's already been through all of the junk. She's confident. Secure with who she is.”
“Cougars teach us to use and balance our own power, to be confident and strong. Although Cougar's are of a solitary nature in the wild, those who have the spirit of the cougar with them are called to become leaders in some way.”
“Cough clenched, and vomited something chunky into the grass. Terrific. The big dog sat on his haunches and looked at William with a perplexed expression on his face. "Well, eat it back up," William hissed. "Don't waste it." Cough gave a tiny whine. "I'm not eating your puke." Cough panted at him. "No.”
Source: Bayou Moon
“Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice”
“Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.”
“Coughing milk through your nose is one of the 7 cleansing rituals of dairy yoga!!”
“Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.”
Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern
“COUGHS. These are symptoms, not diseases. Take them to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.”
“Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies
each with two hundred billion stars
then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?”
“Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?”
“Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.”
“Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?”
Source: The Manual of Detection: A Novel
“Could a father not marry his son?”
“Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.”
“Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did it necessitate the sombre and monotonous dirge of software, priority banking or turbine building.”
Source: Goodnight and God Bless: On Life, Literature, and a Few Other Things, with Footnotes, Quotes, and Other Such Literary Diversions
“Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?”
Source: At Last Comes Love
“Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres
“Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive?”
“Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“Could a name be any shorter? Three letters without even the flourish of an e. Ann, a trio of curves and lines.
It means “full of grace”.”
“Could a person believe so strongly one way, yet take the opposite route?”
Source: Peace Like a River
“Could a Red be trusted to remember that he would be humankind's salvation while remembering what else he would be? The day suddenly seemed colder to Moiraine, for remembering.”
Source: New Spring
“Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?”
Source: Cutting Class
“Could a vow be not all the way broken? Could a sin be not all the way committed?”
Source: Priest
“Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.”
“Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.”
“Could America go as a united country for Halloween this year?”
“Could America lose faith with democracy? “People are strongly committed to the concept of democracy and yet China has had massive growth and way better infrastructure under totalitarianism,” Gundlach mused. “What are we doing when our outcomes are inferior? Is it possible we could change in that regard? Yes, it is possible. I think we are going to see substantial changes in the next six years.” That might even include the U.S. breaking into more than one country, he said.”
“Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.”
“Could an angler go fishing without a fishing rod, line and hook? It depends what they’re fishing for.”
Source: A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?”
“Could an Olympian parent turn against his half-blood child? Would it sometimes be easier just to let them die? If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie for Father's Day after all.”
Source: The Titan’s Curse
“Could any State on Earth Immortall be,
Venice by Her rare Goverment is She;
Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd,
Though by the warrlikst Potentats assayed;
Yet She retaines Her Virgin-waters pure,
Nor any Forren mixtures can endure;
Though, Syren-like on Shore and Sea, Her Face
Enchants all those whom once She doth embrace,
Nor is ther any can Her bewty prize
But he who hath beheld her with his Eyes:
Those following Leaves display, if well observed,
How she long Her Maydenhead preserved,
How for sound prudence She still bore the Bell;
Whence may be drawn this high-fetchd parallel,
Venus and Venice are Great Queens in their degree,
Venus is Queen of Love, Venice of Policie.”
Source: S.P.Q.V.: a survay of the signorie of Venice
“Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it Stropharia cubensis, or is it the creation of Edward Teller? This is an unresolved problem.”
“Could any thing be more true of our churches? They would be shocked at the proposition of fellowshipping a sheep-stealer; and at the same time they hug to their communion a man-stealer, and brand me with being an infidel, if I find fault with them for it. They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith. They are always ready to sacrifice, but seldom to show mercy. They are they who are represented as professing to love God whom they have not seen, whilst they hate their brother whom they have seen. They love the heathen on the other side of the globe. They can pray for him, pay money to have the Bible put into his hand, and missionaries to instruct him; while they despise and totally neglect the heathen at their own doors.
Such is, very briefly, my view of the religion of this land; and to avoid any misunderstanding, growing out of the use of general terms, I mean, by the religion of this land, that which is revealed in the words, deeds, and actions, of those bodies, north and south, calling themselves Christian churches, and yet in union with slaveholders.”
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?”
“Could anyone in his right mind speak seriously of any limited nuclear war? It should be quite clear that the aggressor's actions will instantly and inevitably trigger a devastating counterstroke by the other side. None but completely irresponsible people could maintain that a nuclear war may be made to follow rules adopted beforehand, with nuclear missiles exploding in a "gentlemanly manner" over strictly designated targets and sparing the population.”
“Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.”
“Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“Could anything top the promise and potential of a blank page? What could be more satisfying? Never mind that it would soon be crammed with awkward penmanship, that my handwriting inevitably sloped downhill to the right-hand corner, that I blotted my ink, that my drawings never came out the way I saw them in my head. Never mind all that. What counted was possibility. You could live on possibility, at least for a while.”
Source: The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate
“Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare?”
“Could be a cold night so I guess I'll start a fire."
"A fire? Have you got wood?"
A curve played at the corner of his mouth. "Oh, yeah. I got wood."
The door slammed before she realized what she'd said.”
Source: Love Me Sweet
“Could be a nightmare," Design said. "Taking the shape of a person - because you were thinking about them. Don't trust anything you see made from that darkness, kids.”
Source: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.”
“Could be an amazing product, sell like condoms at a high school prom, donuts at a police convention, sunscreen on a Caribbean crush ship.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Could be just the local boys holding a moonlight circle-jerk up on the hill or sitting around on the tombstones smoking grass. Mostly he'd run into them over in Cumberland, on the checkout line at the supermarket, each with two or three little kids and a little underage wife - who already looks as though life has passed her by - with poor coloring and a pregnant belly pushing a cart piled with popcorn, cheese bugles, sausage rolls, dog food, potato chips, baby wipes, and twelve-inch-round pepperoni pizzas stacked up like money in a dream.”
Source: Sabbath's Theater
“Could be my soul mate / two kindred spirits / Maybe we're not / I guess we'll never / know”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“Could be worse... Could be raining”