C Quotes
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“Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we live not in a world of angels...I am thus far a Quaker, that I would gladly agree with all the world to lay aside the use of arms, and settle matters by negotiation: but unless the whole will, the matter ends, and I take up my musket and thank Heaven He has put it in my power.”
“Could the purr be anything but contemplative?”
“Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?”
“Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.”
“Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.”
Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies
“Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic, it would present a scene the most rugged, grand, and imposing. The very ribs of the solid earth, with the foundations of the sea, would be brought to light, and we should have presented to us at one view the empty cradle of the ocean.”
Source: Explanations and sailing directions to accompany the Wind and current charts: approved by Captain D. N. Ingraham, chief of the Bureau of ordnance and hydrography, and pub. by authority of Hon. Isaac Toucey, secretary of the Navy
“Could the world fall?”
“Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.”
“Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?”
Source: Communal Unity
“Could there be a more hilarious sad sack than Duncan Leland, whose trials and tribulations, so wittily conveyed, had me laughing (and wincing) from the first page? Hart's Maine landscape is rich with eccentric characters, dried fish, and other surprising and original treasures. While Duncan sinks, the reader will float on a cloud nine of classy entertainment.”
“Could there be a snare in too much beauty? Could there be too much expectation of good, and too much fiath?
Could ever there be too much love?
And could love require lies?”
Source: Fortress of Owls
“Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?”
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?”
“Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while the great majority owned little more than the shirts on their backs?”
“Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Could there be irony crueler than this? How, upon his rescue, the truth had brought him here, to a house for the mad, for only a madman believes what every child knows to be true: There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds.”
Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath
“Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?”
Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
“Could there exist true happiness in a marriage when the man is the only one who can regularly exercise his free will and satisfy his desires, without caring whether or not his wife agrees? Accustomed to the passive obedience of women, he does not bother to find out whether or not
she is satisfied with his conduct. And if she is not, he does not attempt to please her, nor to adapt his conduct to a new way of life.
How can the holy priestess of the hearth preserve the sacred fire of love in the home when she has to officiate alone? Where is the principal object of her devotion? Look for him outside the home at those times when he should be at the side of his companion. Will a solid foundation for domestic happiness be established by this behavior? No. Men have the right to do or undo, without his companion. He goes to a masked ball or not, to the casino, to gamble, or chases other women.... and meanwhile, poor woman! A sad scenario for domestic bliss! She is subjected to a sad solitude for days and nights on end, orphaned of love, of sweet attentions and joys while the above-mentioned companion gambles, dances... or falls in love.”
Source: A Nation Of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out; Mi Opinion Sobre Las Libertades, Derechos y Deberes de la Mujer (Recovering the U.s. Hispanic Literary Heritage)
“Could there possibly have been an incumbent more easy to knock-off than George W. Bush? A real-life opposition party would have been insulted to be matched with a such an unworthy and frail rival. The Democrats, by contrast, got their lights punched out.”
“Could this be a calling? This is someone’s daughter, someone’s baby girl, someone’s sister. Why am I doing this? Am I doing it right? What are people gonna think? They won’t understand. In the end, is everything about money? I have something to give..."
All The Pretty Girls (p. 141). Kindle”
Source: All The Pretty Girls
“Could this be a calling? This is someone’s daughter, someone’s baby girl, someone’s sister. Why am I doing this? Am I doing it right? What are people gonna think? They won’t understand. In the end, is everything about money? I have something to give..."
Kumar, Saurab. All The Pretty Girls (p. 141). Kindle Edition.”
Source: All The Pretty Girls
“Could this be the Apocalypse ?”
Source: Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)
“Could thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou might shew thy judgement the sooner?”
“Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!”
“Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?”
Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“Could've smiled and walked away easily, just kept wandering around that same point.”
“Could we betray our parents by going back to them?”
“Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art.”
“Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.”
“Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.”
“Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction?”
“Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?”
Source: The Hidden Mountain
“Could we forbear dispute, and practice love, We should agree as angels do above. Where love presides, not vice alone does find, No entrance there, hut virtues stay behind: Both faith, and hope, and all the meaner train, Of mortal virtues, at the door remain. Love only enters as a native there, For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.”
“Could we forbear dispute, and practise love,
We should agree as angels do above.”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham
“Could we go somewhere that's inside and not raining?" she asked. She kissed him again and tasted espresso.
"I have a place like that in mind." He gently pulled her hair as she bit his lower lip.
"And I have an idea of how to warm you up." She rubbed her thumb against the back of his neck.
"Don't tell me you have those nifty hand warmers." His hands spread across her rain-soaked back, and then slid down, down, down until they rested at the curve of her ass.
"What I have in mind will warm up more than just your hands," she eventually said.
"A heated blanket? I do love those.”
Source: For Butter or Worse
“Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.”
Source: The Legacy of Hiroshima
“Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.”
Source: The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt
“Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.”
“Could we just not have a US President for 4 years? Just a political break. Some might call that unreasonable, now look hard at the choices again, do you still want to talk about what’s unreasonable now?”
“Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.”
“Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.”
“Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion”
“Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.”
“Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.”
“Could we take anxiety to be something that may be of importance, may even be meaningful? And it says something about your history, and could we learn to sort of hold it in a way that's more compassionate, to sort of bring the frightened part of you close and treat it with some dignity, and keep focused instead on what kind of life you want to live connected to what kind of meaning and purpose. That's going to be a quicker, more self-compassionate and more certain journey forward inside things like panic disorder.”
“Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.”