C Quotes
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“Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.”
“Cover us Lord with Your strength.”
Source: RISE UP: Believing God When the World is Falling Apart
“Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause I'm quite honest and open, they can be very revealing. But covers, I don't have to think about, just get me up there!”
“Cover your face. I´m going to break through the external wall
With what? she looked around and he couldn´t resist a smile
With me”
“Cover your glass in France or Germany --even worse, in England - and in the voice of someone who has personally affronted, your host will ask why you're not drinking. 'Oh, I just don't feel like it this morning.' 'Why not?' 'I guess I'm not in the mood?' 'Well, this'll put you in the mood. Here. Drink up.' 'No, really, I'm OK.' 'Just taste it.' 'Actually, I'm sort of...well, I sort of have a problem with it.' 'Then how about half a glass?”
“Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Coverage of Iraq has plummeted, because people in power no longer want to talk about it suddenly. Journalists should be over there demanding front-page coverage, lead-story coverage every day. They should be demanding that no politician running for federal office can go to bed until they say what the hell they're going to do about Iraq and what how accountable they are for it.”
“Coveralls," I reply, and I know I'm no longer screening what's coming out of my mouth.
He raises a eyebrow, amused yet again.
"You wouldn't want to ruin your clothing." I gesture vaguely in the direction of his jeans.
"I could always take them off." He smirks.”
Source: Fifty Shades of Grey
“Covered by the web of disturbing emotions,
One is a sentient being.
Freed from disturbing emotions,
One is called a buddha.
– Nagarjuna”
Source: Lamp of Mahamudra
“covered in snow
the trees rest in
winter silence”
“Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.”
“Covering Africa is 80 percent logistics and 20 percent reporting.”
“Covering discretion with a coat of folly.”
Source: The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.”
“Covering up with one of his wings, I surround myself with the scent of licorice and honey. “You want to hold me while I sleep. You want to watch my face as I dream like you never have—from the outside.”
He traces my eye markings with an elegant fingertip. “That will be my memory to cling to, until you’re mine forever at last, both in waking hours and sleep. The question is, do you trust me enough to give me that? To rest in my arms tonight?”
I hold his soft palm against my cheek. “Will you sing me my lullaby?”
He weaves his fingers through my hair and presses my forehead to his. “Forever and always,” he whispers.
As he hums the tune that has been inside my mind and heart all my life, I close the waterfall canopy, cocooning us within our own frozen pocket of time.”
Source: Ensnared
“Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.”
“Covers by a thousand bad white blues imitators damn near wore the song out.”
Source: The Heart Of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made
“Covers convey genre, set tone, and sell the concept of the story on the emotive level.”
Source: Indie Author Survival Guide
“Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.”
“Covers me, he lowers
To whisper in my ear.
Tucks me in, I wear
This warm blanket of dark paradise,
And my chest is paying the price.”
Source: Lost & Found
“Covers must convey genre and concept, not story.”
Source: Indie Author Survival Guide
“Covers, so many covers, so many different, delectable pictures, and although, metaphorically speaking, it is the thing I hate most, when it comes to literature I always judge books by their covers. First the cover will catch my eye, then I read the back of the book, and then finally the first page.”
Source: Jemima J: A Novel
“COVERT CONVERT
If you don't believe in God, then believe in the hidden camera”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.”
Source: British Bulldog
“Covert Operations Report At approximately 0900 hours on Saturday, October 14, Operative Morgan was given a stern lecture by Agent Townsend, a tracking device by Agent Cameron, and a very scary look from Operative Goode. (She also got a tip that her bra strap was showing from Operative McHenry.) The Operative then undertook a basic reconnaissance mission inside a potentially hostile location. (But it wasn't as hostile as Operative Baxter was going to be if everything didn't go according to plan.)”
“Covertly invest into non-White areas, invest in ghetto abortion clinics. Help to raise
money for free abortions, in primarily non-White areas. Perhaps abortion
clinic syndicates throughout North America, that primarily operate in
non-White areas and receive tax support, should be promoted.”
“Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.”
“Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image.”
“Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.”
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: Miscellaneous works
“Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.”
“Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.”
Source: The Works of Walter Scott, Esq
“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.”
“Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.”
“Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.”
Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...
“Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.”
“Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.”
Source: Fruits of solitude ... New edition
“Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.”
“Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no good to itself, for it dares not spend those heaps of treasure which it has snatched.”
Source: Holy Living and Dying: Together with Prayers : Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian, and the Parts of Devotion Fitted to All Occasions and Furnished for All Necessities
“Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.”
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.”
“Covetousnesse breaks the bag.”
Source: The works of George Herbert
“Covey, Wilder, and Saffy have given me a valuable lesson, in their own ways. Sometimes we need people to hunt the things inside of us that need to die but that we aren't ready to kill.”
Source: They Bloom at Night
“COVID-19, also known as Mother Nature’s Revenge!”
“COVID-19, also known as the apocalypse.”
“COVID-19: Are we going to die?”
“COVID-19, are you coming to get me?”
“COVID-19, are you going to be naughty or nice to me?”
“COVID-19 can be your best friend by giving you immunity, or your worst enemy by destroying your health and possibly killing you.”
“COVID-19 caused a lumber shortage in 2020.”