C Quotes
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“Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."”
“Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law; and, when that is discerned, it is the duty of the Court to follow it. Judicial power is never exericised for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Judge; always for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Legislature; or, in other words, to the will of the law.”
“Courts are, unquestionably, the seats of politeness and good breeding; were they not so, they would be the seats of slaughter and desolation. Those who now smile upon and embrace, would affront and stab, each other, if manners did not interpose..... Lord Chesterfield”
Source: The 48 Laws Of Power
“Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.”
“Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“Courts must not grant Exparte Orders in a hurry under the assumption that all IP owners are genuine.”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“Courts of equity have always considered it of the greatest possible importance that parties should not sleep on their rights.”
“Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.”
“Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.”
“Courts should always do the right thing. But if winning were as simple as making a good argument and filing a good brief, then we would have won the freedom to marry 40 years ago. We must put the legal work next to the public education work next to the legislative work next to the organizing work, and that's what's brought us so far.”
“Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.”
“Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.”
“Courtship is a commitment -
it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart.”
Source: Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship
“Courtship is an activity whereby one losses oneself … whilst trying to win someone’s love.”
“Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.”
“Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could fall apart and be lost forever.”
“Courtship is romantic. Marriage ... is an act of will," said Pippa, taking a sip of water. "I mean, I adore Herb. But the marriage functions because we will it to. If you leave love to hold everything together, you can forget it.”
Source: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
“Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters
“Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast
“Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.”
“Cousin Jimmy says that a man in Priest Pond says the end of the world is coming soon. I hope it won't come till I've seen everything in it.”
Source: Emily of New Moon
“Cousin Stupidd is here, he has inoperable brain cancer....I just put a pillow over his face”
Source: Radio Mustard: Book One: The Weight
“Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over." "Not to me. Not to them.”
Source: Tides Of War
“Cousins are forever and forever are cousins they stand by your side for you no matter what.”
“Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz, not friends.”
“Cousins are people that are ready made friends, you have laughs with them and remember good times from a young age, you have fights with them but you always know you love each other, they are a better thing than brothers and sisters and friends cause there all pieced together as one.”
“Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.”
“Couture has a lot of issues today. Here in Paris there are oddly so few houses showing. And I'm not talking about the style. I'm talking about the sense of couture and these young actresses that you were talking about - they want long dresses that are not always the most innovative or the most interesting. So it's a bit lost.”
“Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.”
“Couture is also a matter of respect. In the end, all of these women sewing and embroidering the clothes, whom are almost all my mother's age, they're all 70 or 80 years old, have been here for a lifetime. They spend hours on it and come up with solutions. And because it's on a catwalk, people see if for five seconds and don't even see the technique, the drapery.”
“Couture is emotion. Couture is freedom. Couture is not thinking about pricing and not thinking about craziness. You can do whatever you want to do in couture.”
“Couture is more your own world, they come and buy head-to-toe - they buy the jewelry, bags, coats, dresses, bodies underneath.... But couture is not dead - it's taken another shape.”
“Couture was only for rich people. Givenchy was for rich people. A bag cost 5,000 euro; a coat cost 10,000 euro. In the beginning, I couldn't react. I was just working like a machine, because I wanted to make the house happy.”
“Covalent Bonds”
“Covek je stvorenje nacinjeno na kraju radne nedelje kad se Bog umorio. I cemu je trebalo celi ovaj globus stvarati u zurbi, za sest dana. Da se potrosilo malo vise vremena, svet se ne bi trebalo toliko popravljati i poboljsavati. Slicno se desava kad na brzinu sklepas kucu, pa u zurbi zaboravis WC, ili spremiste za metle, i to onda moras naknadno dograditi, bez obzira koliko te to kostalo novaca ili zivaca.”
Source: The Autobiography of Mark Twain
“Covek, kad srcem voli, oseca srce voljenog bica i kako ga nicim ne moze obmanuti.”
Source: Molitva za oproštaj
“Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.”
“Covenants with God help us to know who we really are.”
“Covenants without swords are but words.”
“Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!”
“Cover hatred and fear with love and delight, and with innocent things...The proponents of confrontation, violence, the acerbic comment, laughed at the innocent things, thought them naive, considered them beneath them. How easy it was to destroy the civilised structures of the world; how easy to poison the wells.”
Source: The Quiet Side of Passion
“Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.”
Source: The Duchess of Malfi
“Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.”
“Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.”
“Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.”
“Cover the earth, before it covers you.”
“Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life.”
Source: Farm Legends
“Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day.”
Source: Farm Legends