C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.”
“Counter Girl (in candy shop): You two are cute. Seriously. How long have you been going out? Sam: Six years.”
“Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.”
“Counter to the public's thinking, the celebrities who attract the largest number of stalkers - and typically it's not "if" a celebrity has a stalker, it's "how many" - are neither the most glamorous nor obnoxious, but rather the ones who seem the sweetest and most wholesome. They appear approachable.”
“Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.”
“Counterfactuals never feed the children.”
Source: Raven Stratagem
“Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all.”
Source: That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm
“Counterfeit freedom brings only apathy. True freedom brings responsibility.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.”
“Counterfeit revolutionaries give in to the comfort and security of authoritarian life, the moment they come to power themselves. Upon coming to power, the most outspoken activist no longer minds getting acquainted with the nuclear codes of inhumanity, in the name of national security.
If asked why, their usual answer is - it's a necessary evil. Thus, an activist is only activist till they come to power. Once in power, most of them turn into the same kind of rotten politicians, that they have been fighting against.
That's human behavior 101 in relation to political revolution.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.”
“Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold.”
“Countering an insurgency is a strategic conundrum that remains unsolved. If the conditions are right, once a spark of resistance ignites within the nation, it sets off an uncontainable wildfire.”
Source: The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny
“Countering 'quiet quitting' with 'quiet firing' is immature and vindictive, because it totally ignores the causes that got people to this point.
[From “On the Great Resignation” published on CounterPunch on February 24, 2023]”
“Countering violent extremism and destroying ISIS must be done primarily by Muslim nations with the strong support of their global partners.”
“Counterinsurgency rests on the assumption that the enemy has significant support in the communities from which it recruits. The aim of counterinsurgency strategy is to deny the enemy any propaganda victories that can further fuel its recruitment. Insurgents must be isolated from their targeted host communities. This requires a combination of psychological, physical and economic warfare, all with the aim of undermining the insurgents’ ideological, operational and financial capabilities.
From: Maajid Nawaz's article titled, 'How to Beat Islamic State', December 11th, 2015”
“Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again.”
Source: Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times
“Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.”
“Counting blessings is better than recounting problems”
“Counting helped in lots of situations. There was something calming about the succession, the order, the absence of chaos without the terror of dreading inevitability. Six came after five, and it would always come after five, and there was never a reason for anyone to be upset that it did.”
Source: Surviving to the End
“Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.”
“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.”
“Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.”
Source: The Demise of the Dollar... and Why It's Great For Your Investments
“Counting on each other became automatic. When I found a sweater in Texas I wanted, I learned to buy two, which was easier than seeing the look of disappointment on Caroline's face when I returned home with only one. When she went out from the boathouse on a windy day, she gave me her schedule in advance, which assuaged her worst-case scenario of flipping the boat, being hit on the head by an oar, and leaving Lucille stranded at home. I still have my set of keys to her house, to locks and doors that no longer exist, and I keep them in my glove compartment, where they have been moved from one car to another in the past couple of years. Someday I will throw them in the Charles, where I lost the seat to her boat and so much else.”
Source: Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
“Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerful mass; laughter and joy are expressions of praise and thanksgiving for life's glories. When looking at the glass that symbolizes our life, we can view it as half full or half empty. The choice is ours... The more joyful we are, the more attractive we become. When we feel gratitude for our experiences, it becomes easier to see the good that always exists. When we give a smile to someone else, we are likely to receive one in return, and that smile reflects a happy heart that is open and receptive to what the good life has in store.”
“Counting pairs is the oldest trick in combinatorics... Every time we count pairs, we learn something from it.”
“Counting smiles that we see in one day is a lot easier than counting stars.”
“Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.”
Source: The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs
“Counting the numbers of troops is not going to define our success here.There is no military success, ultimately, to Afghanistan. The Afghans themselves are going to define what happens here. And we have to convince ourselves that we have a strategy in place that empowers them to do that and that is realistic in what our expectations are from them and on what schedule.”
“Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].”
“Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore.”
“Counting time is not as important as making time count.”
“Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.”
“Counting your blessings is better than counting your money”
“Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.”
“Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.”
“Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.”
“Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.”
Source: Gormenghast
“Countless forms make up this network. In this world, there are few of us.”
“Countless gods filled countless gaps,” Langdon said. “And yet, over the centuries, scientific knowledge increased.” A collage of mathematical and technical symbols flooded the sky overhead. “As the gaps in our understanding of the natural world gradually disappeared, our pantheon of gods began to
shrink.”
Source: Origin
“Countless lion-hearts have sacrificed their lives to liberate their nation from the oppression of other nations. Now, we stand at yet another crossroads of oppression - it is the oppression of bigotry and discrimination on the human psyche. Time has come my sentient soldier, that the self must fight with all its might to be free from the oppression of discrimination, prejudices and bigotry. And this fight is far too grand to be fought with plain primitive violence and strength of the muscle. It is a battle within the mind which can only be fought and won by the strength and purity of the mind.”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.”
“Countless organisms are either cut or killed every four or so weeks, just to make us look civilized, sane, and mature through the state of our yard.”
“Countless people, and not just women, men as well, stay in emotionally and physically abusive relationships, or in relationships where they are manipulated, taken for granted and demeaned at every single step. And yet they chose to accept their circumstances because they are either afraid of being alone or because they are expected to tolerate the abuse by society OR because they are so in love with the manipulative person that they seemed to have lost their identity.
They think that by choosing to accept that abuse and losing their identity, the other person will actually appreciate their loyalty and love them more, or eventually realize their mistake and change. But unfortunately, that never happens, and certainly never happens if you don’t take a stand and refuse to accept the abuse any further.
On the contrary, the person starts taking them for granted and is encouraged to make thing worse, because they think that no matter what happens, you are always going to be there and silently take all the crap they give you.”
Source: UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life
“Countless people have attempted to define the absolute power of the world of nature. Some praise it as god, some call it the Buddha, others call it truth. Still others convert nature into a philosophy by which they attempt to sound its deepest truth. Such attempts to define the power of nature are no more than striving to escape its effects.”
“Countless people live their whole lives without ever knowing this...this unnameable thing that we share. This exclusive and secret club that we are so blessed to be a part of. I suppose that by many people's definition, it would simply be called 'Love'. And yet, this is unlike any other love or feeling or emotion that I have ever felt. Simply calling it 'Love' would be an injustice...it would do a massive disservice to this feeling that seems to envelop me with every breath I take. It's as if wherever I go, it goes; and whichever direction I look, it sees. It moves with me as if we've been doing this dance forever...like we are one being and of one mind. It has to uncanny ability to affect change by just existing; it speaks to me and with me and through me and every time it says my name, it cloaks my entire being with a warm comforting familiar glow...like it's only ever meant to be said that way and no different. It's not just simply love...it's everything.”
“Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying.”
Source: Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home
“Countless people, suffering from many different diseases, stand to benefit from the answers stem cell research can provide. We owe it to ourselves and to our children to do everything in our power to find cures for these diseases - and soon. As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.”