C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Could it possibly be that he yearned for some of the same things she yearned for? Love. Someone to call your own. Someone to share the joys and the sorrows of life.”
Source: Sins of Summer
“Could it really be the case that so many of our problems proliferate because this mesmerizing construct and its somnambulistic denizens have forgotten how to dance? how to sing? how to engage storytelling? how to enter into silence?”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Could it really be this easy to land a handsome man? If so, why didn't I try it ages ago?”
Source: Dreadfully Ever After
“Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”
Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
“Could just feed 'im to the dogs, Prez," Bucket drawled. "Wouldn't have to feed 'em for a whole fuckin' month after that."
Dirty rolled his eyes. Bucket was full of shit; the club didn't have any dogs.”
Source: Unattainable
“Could life’s tedium be the inevitable result of its elongation? Two hundred years ago, people didn’t live much past thirty. Did that make those years more exciting, more precious?”
Source: What Awaits?
“Could love have only one side to it and still be love?”
“Could man be drunk for ever With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.”
“Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!”
Source: Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys and girls of each community? Have they grown up to believe in politics without principle, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without effort, wealth without work, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice?”
Source: An enemy hath done this
“Could Marek be just another babe to care for? Oh, that would be nice, wouldn’t it? To be pitied just once? Didn’t God owe him that, after all the horror he had endured?”
“Could Miss Smith be truly considered as a nerd or freak?
Other than the reasons she brought to Billy, there were a few more aspects of life where Emily, for some reason, differed from the majority of students. She just didn’t ever fit to match the crowd, no matter how hard she tried.”
Source: Gods’ Food
“Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes
“Could my opponents be right? Partly right? Is there truth
or merit in their position or argument? Is my reaction one
that will relieve the problem, or will it just relieve any frustration? Will my reaction drive my opponents further away
or draw them closer to me? Will my reaction elevate the estimation good people have of me? Will I win or lose?
What price will I have to pay if I win? If I am quiet about it,
will the disagreement blow over? Is this difficult situation
an opportunity for me?”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“Could my problem have been that I was looking for validation in the wrong places all along?”
Source: Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir
“Could not God just forgive us without having to hurt something or someone?”
“Could one carve out this ideal [solitary] life without responsibility? Would not one long for company, for music and dancing? For discussion? Would one long for sex, women, for variation, for laughter? That world could prove to be too difficult. I think the bitter reality is that one would long for other people, however hard this is to take.”
“Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Could one forget how to be free?”
Source: Sailing to Sarantium
“Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.”
Source: Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
“Could one small divot in the stainless steel of fidelity begin a relentless rust that would eat out the strength of a union?”
Source: What Awaits?
“Could one soul consume another given enough time?”
Source: Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
“Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?”
“Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even there
He'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.”
Source: Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer
“Could one think so intensely of someone and not be visited?”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“Could others hold him?" His face remains the same. "There are no others. You're the only one." I swallow. "I can hold him.”
“Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?”
“Could represent a bio-inspired, eco-friendly or stealthy aircraft—elegant and efficient.
Ginkgo trees, native to China, are highly valued for their longevity, resilience, and cultural significance, and are often called the "tree of youth". They have been cultivated in China for thousands of years, particularly in ancient temples, and are known for their ability to thrive even in harsh conditions, making them symbols of hope, longevity, and peace.”
“Could rivalry be a productive system?”
“Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?”
Source: Nature and Other Essays
“Could she *be* anymore out of my league?”
“Could she be happy outside my daily, direct control? The answer was yes. It was a blow to my ego, but it was true. The epiphany lifted a great weight off my shoulders. Even though I could not understand the grand scheme of things, I could see what was truly important when I applied a simple filter—my child’s well-being—to the situation.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“Could she bottle this feeling, live off it for a while? Fill herself with something good and ignore the slick of blood on her hands, not think about the gun in the sound of that mug hitting the table or those dead eyes waiting for her in the darkness of a blink?Oh, too late.”
Source: As Good As Dead
“Could she endure it, the long vigil of death made visible?”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.”
Source: Ship of Fools: A Novel
“Could she learn to like this guy? "“It's nice to meet you." Kylie plastered a warm expression on her face. But she worried he could tell it was a sham. "The pleasure is all mine," he said. Kylie just smiled. He was completely right about that.”
Source: Whispers at Moonrise
“Could she let this fantasy become real?”
Source: Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
“Could she really even consider doing this to another woman? Another woman with children...”
Source: Let's Meet on Platform 8 / A Whiff of Scandal
“Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?”
Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition
“Could some of the challenging behaviours that often partner autism begin as experiements on measuring human reactions? Are these children exploring boundaries - seeing what makes the toy squeak or the adult shriek?”
Source: Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
“Could somebody explain to me why transgender people have become so important to Barack Hussein O? I'm serious.”
“Could somebody turn back that clock
This entire year has been lost
I'm still in my bed”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.”
“Could Stephen have met men on equal terms, she would always have chosen them as her companions; she preferred them because of their blunt, open outlook, and with men she had much in common—sport for instance. But men found her too clever if she ventured to expand, and too dull if she suddenly subsided into shyness. In addition to this there was something about her that antagonized slightly, an unconscious presumption. Shy though she might be, they sensed this presumption; it annoyed them, it made them feel on the defensive. She was handsome but much too large and unyielding both in body and mind, and they liked clinging women. They were oak-trees, preferring the feminine ivy. It might cling rather close, it might finally strangle, it frequently did, and yet they preferred it, and this being so, they resented Stephen, suspecting something of the acorn about her.”
Source: The Well Of Loneliness
“Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.”
Source: Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]
“Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?”
Source: Highway of Eternity
“Could that have been what Mr. Sheppard feared all along: not the disease itself, but how Max would grow up living in fear?”
Source: Coincident
“Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.”
Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero
“Could the entire notion of finding one’s soul mate be a simple case of looking for ourselves in another body? Is the “soul mate” really just the best approximation of ourselves that we can find?”
Source: Zen and Sex