C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Could we wear spandex and blow things up?”
Source: Eyes Like Stars
“Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?”
Source: Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel and Womens' Liberation
“Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff?”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“Could you achieve the possible without trying? Could you achieve the impossible if you refuse to stop trying?”
“Could you be loved and be loved?”
“Could you bring back a man without a head? Not six times. Just once.”
“Could you control how your mind sorted things? No more than you could control your dreams?”
Source: Laurie
“Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?”
Source: Ghost Story
“Could you do a liberal propaganda tool that would bore the bejesus out of people? No.”
“Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head. 'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head.”
“Could you do things out of order and end up at the same place?”
Source: Here One Moment
“Could you double-check the envelope?”
“Could you exist just for the art of existence?”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.”
“Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.”
“Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal?”
Source: A Little Life
“Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard her heart-rending groans, and seen her bloodshot eyes wander wildly from face to face, vainly pleading for mercy; could you have witnessed that scene as I saw it, you would exclaim, Slavery is damnable!”
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“Could you help me catch the moon?” “I might be able to give you some advice,” the old man said reluctantly. “But first you should think this over, boy. When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you’ll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“Could you hold Martinsson’s flashlight for a moment?” Wallander said to Hansson.
“Why?”
“Just do it, please.”
Martinsson handed Hansson his flashlight. Wallander took a step forward and hit Martinsson in the face. However, since it was hard to judge the distance between them in the shifting beams of the flashlights, the blow didn’t land squarely on the jaw as intended. It was more of a gentle nudge.
“What the hell are you doing?”
“What the hell are you doing?” Wallander yelled back.
Then he threw himself on Martinsson and they fell into the mud. Hansson tried to grab them as they fell, but slipped.”
Source: Firewall
“Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?”
Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel
“Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.”
“Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.”
“Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.”
“Could you imagine what a salmon would say if you asked it about its life? We think our lives are miserable? If only a salmon could speak. This fish spends half of its life swimming upstream, only to reach a body of water where either a bear catches it or it lays eggs only to die right afterward. What are we complaining about then? A salmon does what a salmon does. It doesn’t complain.”
Source: Tajrish
“Could you just call me Pigeon?” he asked the teacher when she read his name. “Does your mother call you Pigeon?” “No.” “Then to me you are Paul.” ... “Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read. “My mother never calls me Nathan.” “Is it Nate?” “She calls me Honeylips.”
Source: The Candy Shop War
“Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.”
“Could you let me hear more, without the usual scientific jargon? All this talk of ‘antigravity’ and ‘antimatter’ sounds like scientists’ covering up a big, dark, uncomfortable gaping hole in their knowledge and understanding.”
Source: The Gasp
“Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?”
“could you love her…
not just when she's flowers
but when she's fire.”
Source: she's flowers and fire
“could you
love her, still…
when she's not only
soft in your arms
but when she's wild
with the moon and restless…
and maybe just a little out of reach
from your fingertips.
could you love her, still,
when she's not only sweet and
resting easy on your chest,
but when she's wild blossomed in the night
and searching for more inside of herself
than who you may think she is.
could you love her
not just when she's flowers
but when she's fire.
she has to know… if she lets you close…
when she blooms wild and burns bright…
could you love her, still.”
“Could you maybe not stare at my brothers in open mouthed admiration?” Rachel whispers. “It will only make their egos bigger.”, Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
Source: Loving Summer
“Could you not give me some sign, or tell me something about you that never changes, or some other way to know you, or thing to know you by?" — "No, Curdie: that would be to keep you from knowing me. You must know me in quite another way from that. It would not be the least use to you or me either if I were to make you know me in that way. It would be but to know the sign of me — not to know me myself.”
Source: Down the Chimney: 100+ Most Treasured Christmas Novels & Stories in One Volume (Illustrated): The Tailor of Gloucester, Little Women, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Heavenly Christmas Tree…
“Could you people stop trying to come up with novel ways to kill me for just ONE HOUR? Or maybe the rest of the night? I would SO like that. Just the rest of the night. Just sit down. Just stop doing anything. Sit down and wait sensibly. Earth, water, air, fire - you're running out of elements here!”
Source: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
“Could you please ask your mother to refrain from colorful language like that? I've got an impressionable young woman here”
Source: Murder by Cheesecake
“Could you please explain to me exactly what the staff is that you carry?" Cronus proudly held the symbol of his power and authority aloft. "It is the scepter that denotes my control of the Physical Realms. All who defy me should look on it and tremble." "Oh, I see! Do you know, I thought it was a giant toothpick, or perhaps something you shoved into other parts of you anatomy. I never realized it represented your supposed right to rule," said Her Vampiric Majesty lightly.”
Source: The Icemark Chronicles #3: Last Battle of the Icemark
“Could you please put this--could you all put these--could you get dressed, please?" The woman only bestowed a serene smile on me. "We are as the Goddess requires." "The Goddess requires you to be naked on my lawn?”
Source: Spellcasters: The Case of the Half-Demon Spy, Dime Store Magic, Industrial Magic, Wedding Bell Hell
“Could you please stop with the beating? (Kat) He’s being punished. Hello? This is Tartarus, remember the purpose of this part of the Underworld? We’re not really warm and fluffy over here. (Hades)”
“Could you possibly be a little more incoherent?" asked Olivenko. "There are bits of this I'm almost understanding, and I'm sure that's not what you have in mind.”
Source: Ruins
“Could you really be expected to..." she paused, searching for the word.
"Pleasure?" He offered, amiably.
"Entertain. All three of them?"
He began dealing the cards again. "Yes."
"How?"
He looked up at her, and offered her a wolfish grin. "Would you really like me to answer that?"
Her eyes widened. "Uhm... no."
He laughed then, a deep, rumbling laugh unlike anything she'd ever heard from him, and she was stunned by the way it transformed him. His face was immediately lighter, his eyes brighter, his frame more relaxed. She couldn't help but smile back at him, even as she admonished, "You're enjoying my discomfort."
"Indeed I am, Empress."
She blushed. "You shouldn't call me that."
"Why not? You were named for an empress, were you not?"
She closed her eyes and gave a mock shudder. "I prefer not to be reminded of the hideous name."
"You should embrace it," he said, forthrightly. "You're one of the few women I've met who could live up to such a name."
"You've said that before," she said.
He turned a curious look on her. "I have?"
She met his eyes and immediately regretted bringing up the decade-old memory, so insignificant to him- so very meaningful to her.”
Source: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
“Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes
“Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it”
“Could you sharpen it to a sword-point, let it carve the ground behind you as you run?”
Source: Wain: LGBT reimaginings of Scottish folktales
“Could you stand still please?' Sylvia says in an irritated voice. If she had sweaty balls and an almost-boner she wouldn't be so judgmental. Am I right, or am I right?”
Source: Futures and Frosting
“Could you tell me why you did it?” I hear the floorboards under his feet creak. “Were you lonely? Mad? Trying to get back at me for something?” He hasn’t reached the conclusion that I want his body and his pleasure, more than I want water and food.
“I’m not telling you a damn thing,” I reply, because I know that’s what will annoy him the most. “I’ll tell you one day, when we’re eighty years old.”
Source: 99 Percent Mine
“Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.”
“Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.”
“Could your footprints have gone somewhere before you? Of course yes! You first imagine the place you are going to, your dream is your invisible footprints, it goes there before you, if it weren't for your previous invisible footprints, there would be no footprints you left behind!”
“Could your medicine be a cell, not a pill? Could your medicine be an organ that's created outside the body? Could your medicine be an environment?”
“Could've come like a mighty storm. With all the strength of a hurricane. You could've come like a forest fire with the power of Heaven in Your flame. But You came like a winter snow, quiet and soft and slow. Falling from the sky in the night to the earth below.”
“Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?”