C Quotes
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“Coulda knocked me over with a feather, the front bell went and I opened the door to that tall drink of cool water. Woke up and I knew it was a good day. Felt it in my bones. Opened the door to him, glad I was right.”
Source: Raid
“Couldn't he have come out and greeted her like a civil human being instead of lurking from his kitchen while she shared a clearly intimate moment with his brisket?”
Source: Taste
“Couldn't I just take up juggling fire over a pit of alligators?" Liam muttered. "I think it might be easier.”
Source: Wickedly Ever After
“Couldn't I try...Naturally, it wouldn't be a question of a tune...But couldn't I in another medium?...It would have to be a book: I don't know how to do anything else. But not a history book: history talks about what has existed - an existent can never justify the existence of another existent. My mistake was to try to resuscitate Monsieur de Rollebon. Another kind of book. I don't quite know which kind - but you would have to guess, behind the printed words, behind the pages, something which didn't exist, which was above existence. The sort of story, for example, which could never happen, an adventure. It would have to be beautiful and hard as steel and make people ashamed of their existence.
I am going, I feel irresolute. I dare not make a decision. If I were sure that I had talent...but I have never, never written anything of that sort; historical articles, yes - if you could call them that. A book. A novel. And there would be people who would read this novel and who would say: 'It was Antoine Roquentin who wrote it, he was a red-headed fellow who hung about in cafés', and they would think that about my life as I think about the life of the Negress: as about something precious and almost legendary. A book. Naturally, at first it would only be a tedious, tiring job, it wouldn't prevent me from existing or from feeling that I exist. But a time would have to come when the book would be written, would be behind me, and I think that a little of its light would fall over my past. Then, through it, I might be able to recall my life without repugnance. Perhaps one day, thinking about this very moment, about this dismal moment at which I am waiting, round-shouldered, for it to be time to get on the train, perhaps I might feel my heart beat faster and say to myself: 'It was on that day, at that moment that it all started.' And I might succeed - in the past, simply in the past - in accepting myself.”
Source: Nausea
“Couldn't it be said that it was in the seventeenth century that we started down the path that has brought us to where we are now? After all, it was then that Londoners began to use coal on a large scale, for heating, which was how our dependence on fossil fuels started. Would your Jacobean playwrights have written as they did if they hadn't had coal fires to warm them? Did they know that an angry beast, which had long lain dormant within the earth, was coming to life? Did Hobbes or Leibniz or any of the other thinkers of the Enlightenment have any understanding of this?”
Source: Gun Island
“Couldn't we be human beings before we are colored and caucasians!”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Couldn’t we camp down by the lakes?” Nynaeve asked, patting her face with her kerchief. “It must be cooler down by the water.”
“Light,” Mat said, “I’d just like to stick my head in one of them. I might never take it out.”
Just then something roiled the waters of the nearest lake, the dark water phosphorescing as a huge body rolled beneath the surface. Length on man-thick length sent ripples spreading, rolling on and on until at last a tail rose, waving a point like a wasp’s stinger for an instant in the twilight, at least five spans into the air. All along that length fat tentacles writhed like monstrous worms, as many as a centipede’s legs. It slid slowly beneath the surface and was gone, only the fading ripples to say it had ever been.
Rand closed his mouth and exchanged a look with Perrin. Perrin’s yellow eyes were as disbelieving as he knew his own must be. Nothing that big could live in a lake that size. Those couldn’t have been hands on those tentacles. They couldn’t have been.
“On second thought,” Mat said faintly, “I like it right here just fine.”
Source: The Eye of the World
“Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?”
Source: Lord of the Flies
“Couldn't afford a car so he named his daughter Alexis”
“Couldn't believe that out of 70K people, I was chosen.”
“Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.”
“Couldn't I just be a bit loony instead of gifted?”
Source: Born at Midnight
“Couldn't Lissa have healed that black eye away?" "Its a badge of honor. Makes me seem manly.”
Source: Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel
“Couldn't start the morning without caffeine.”
“Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”
“Couldn't we end this interview with what I really want to say? That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship -- everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. If we could end this article saying just that, we'd get down to what we should all be talking about. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.”
“Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers?”
“Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti?
See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy;
My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.”
“Councell breakes not the head.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.”
“Councils of War never fight.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt
“Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.”
“Counsel in trouble gives small comfort when help is past remedy.”
“Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.”
“Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.”
Source: Selected Writings: 1935-1938
“Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.”
“Counselor Bingham and I looked inside, then looked at each other. He counted. Then I counted. There were thirteen mobile phones in the box, two of them were Android. The rest were all iPhones.”
Source: Uncanny Alliance
“Counselor, you can come along, but I prefer to interview Stella alone.”
“Let’s just say I’ll think about that.”
“Is there a legal precedence that you feel you need to be there?”
“No, no legal precedence. Just looking out for my client.”
“Stella is now my client, as well. I don’t take any of my cases lightly. I’ve been hired to find the murderer and that’s what I intend to do. Stella is the starting point, and her interview is pivotal. If you are in the interview room with us, she may not divulge information that could be crucial to my going further. I hope you can understand my position in this.”
Source: Uncanny Alliance
“Counsels of Bahaudin
You want to be filled. But something which is full has first to be emptied. Empty yourself so that you will fill properly, by observing these counsels, which you can do as duties to yourself:
First
Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.”
Source: Thinkers of the East
“Count 10 over him - he'll get up”
“Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains,
'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains:
And grant the bad what happiness they would,
One they must want--which is, to pass for good.”
Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke
“Count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus”
“Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.”
Source: Pascarèl: Only a Story
“Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. However precipitous the future might seem, he learned from the game of kemari that the ball must always come down. There was no call for consternation. Grief and rage, along with other outbursts of passion, were mistakes easily committed by a mind lacking in refinement. And the Count was certainly not a man who lacked refinement.
Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura’s version of political theory.”
Source: Spring Snow
“Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.”
“Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.”
“Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.”
“Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.”
Source: The Waldenses, Or the Fall of Rora: a Lyrical Sketch. With Other Poems
“Count every second of your life as the greatest blessing.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.”
“Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.”
“Count how many days you have lived! It's easy Math. You will soon realize the worth of living.”
Source: The Man Who Lived the Ages
“Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.”
“Count me amongst the enemies to demons. Except for one.”
Source: Mythology
“Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.”
Source: The Complete Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden, The Green Pearl, Madouc
“Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“COUNT. Money? Who for?
FIGARO. Money, for God’s sake, and lots of it. Money makes the plots go round.”
Source: The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro / The Guilty Mother
“Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.”
“count no man happy until he be dead.”
“Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.”