C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.”
Source: Ten Days in a Mad-House
“Could I really be so childish that my brain would be fooled by the smaller plate? Yes, I could.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.”
Source: Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974
“Could I see him acting as Warren Beatty directed, and what would that be like? When you see him as those characters, once you get to know him, there is so much of him in them. In fact, I saw so much of him in them that it made me laugh.”
“Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.”
Source: Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set
“Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.”
“Could I weep my soul
Into one precious pearl
Deep in the sea I'd let it lie
Lost, where no waves curl.
- Lament”
Source: Fossils of a Future Time?
“Could I write all, the world would turn to stone.”
“Could it actually be true that tears help people to heal?”
Source: Asleep
“Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.”
“Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the Russian is an urbanized phenomenon, this difference corresponds to that which exists between the users of two different forms of written communication, the one archaic, the other alphabetic?”
“Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God?”
Source: Sex, Lies & Religion
“Could it be...? Did she intentionally... break off her teeth to save me...?”
Source: I Am a Hero Omnibus, Volume 1
“Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who would say of himself 'I am an overcoat' just because he happened to be wearing one?”
Source: Luminous Chaos
“Could it be in longing we are most ourselves?”
“Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?”
“Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?”
“Could it be that despite all the years I spent in medical school and residency training acquiring specialized knowledge and practical skills, that this expertise mattered little to my patients' overall health?”
Source: Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
“Could it be that different political views, different religions and even scientific theories had been looking at our reality from different angles? If so, we should not accept or prefer one over the other, but instead we must aim to draw the best out of each view.”
“Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord”
Source: The Secret Lives of People in Love
“Could it be that following our initiatory path and connecting with higher source wisdom might actually be one of our species’ best defense systems?”
Source: The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic
“Could it be that God is so intensely personal that He would burn down your world in hopes of building it back?”
“Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to Elvis Presley, every culture tells us of high-flying bird men who zoom around the world creating magnificent works of art and choosing willing followers to share in the eternal glory from beyond the stars. Can all these related phenomena merely be dismissed as coincidence?”
“Could it be that he fears people looking at his wrinkled flesh?”
“Could it be that heaven is just a creation of our insane belief that we are some how.. so fucking special. When the truth is we’re just equal to every other creation that lives, breathes and ultimately dies.”
“Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?”
“Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?”
Source: The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders
“Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?”
“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally imposed aberration for our species? As ill-suited to our evolved tendencies as corsets, chastity belts, and suits of armor? ...a distorted and distorting family structure inappropriate for our species?”
“Could it be that the best way to help myself is to stop “Excusing Myself?” Only you and I know the answer.”
Source: Who Told You That?: Validating the Voices and Qualifying Your Choices
“Could it be that the COVID pandemic is showing us what’s
essential for a healthy economy and planet?”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“Could it be that the higher one’s master stands, the rope tying one to slavery is lengthened by the same amount? In that case, if we jump and frolic in a much wider domain, we die without ever discovering its boundaries.”
Source: Zorba the Greek
“Could it be that the planets are castaway heads.”
“Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?”
Source: The Complete Science Fiction Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Illustrated): A Princess of Mars, Llana of Gathol, The Gods of Mars, Beyond Thirty, The Warlord of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, The Master Mind of Mars, Pirates of Venus, The Monster Men and many more
“could it be that they [Italian men] care more about romance than sex, especially when they are on the receiving end? ... ...I was on the lookout for some good sex, an attitude that led colleagues with whom I then shared an office, Federico and Gerardo, to say that I was “the only maschio in the room”. Both claimed that they only care about sex and want it when they are in love.”
Source: My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City
“Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”
“Could it be that time is too narrow for all events? Could it happen that all the seats within time might have been sold? Worried, we run along the train of events, preparing ourselves for the journey.”
Source: The street of crocodiles and other stories
“Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?”
Source: The Letter
“Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?”
“Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?”
“Could it be the girls and boys are trying to be heard above your noise?”
“Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines of linear thinking?”
“Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?”
“Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday?” I roll my eyes. “I don’t know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback.” “I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party.” He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. “And I’m not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks.” “What’s an acid flashback?” Izzy crows. “Nothing,” my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me.”
“Could it ever be explained, how matter becomes conscious?”
“Could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?”
Source: Midnight Riot
“Could it have come for me, too, the time to 'save my honor'? How many men leave an 'overly demanding' woman to duck the moment of truth when their inadequacy can no longer be disguised? [...] 'She doesn’t excite me anymore' neatly passes the buck by leaving the woman feeling she is to blame, that she has somehow lost her attraction, her sex appeal, whatever; it is a ploy typical of the aging cock-of-the-walk whose strutting and preening are meant to conceal his private failings.”
Source: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
“Could it not be that Moses and/or the Levites just came to it on their own?! Scholars have a tendency to take any parallel between ancient Israel's culture and assume that Israel took it from the others. Why? I see no good reason at all. Did Moses get this religion from the Midianites? All right then, where did the Midianites get it? Did Moses get if from Akhenaten? All right then, where did Akhenaten get it? If Ahkenaten thought of it on his own, why could an Israelite not have done it on his (or her) own as well? Is it a far-out thought that sometimes more than one person thinks of an idea--without influencing each other, without knowing each other?
And we have another crucial consideration. The difference between Israel's monotheism and whatever preceded it is more than arithmetic. It is not just one god versus many. Biblical religion involves a different conception of what this one God is. In pagan religion, the gods and goddesses were identified with forces in nature: the sun, the sky, the sea, death, fertility, the storm wind. Even in Akhenaten's religion, whether it was fully monotheistic or not, Aten was identified closely with the sun. In Israelite religion, no force in nature can tell you more about God than any other.”
Source: The Exodus
“Could it not be the case that if one loves something one sees it better and more truly than if one did not love it?”
“Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.”