C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Craving for power, titles and promotion to high places is not a tool for carving impacts in the heart the world. High positions polluted by bad character are the poisons that dehydrate the world of positive virtues.”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“Craving for the top of the mountain is a feeling to yearn for, an endurance we learn from.”
“Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.”
“Craving that fucking escape so badly because someone else left you empty?”
“Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother's and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to mood, advancing and retreating-the quintessential model of two-mindedness.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“Craving to be celebrated by others will often leave you unhappy. Instead, celebrate yourself by immersing yourself in what you love doing. This holds the key to your Happiness.”
“Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Cravings are not about food. Cravings are about stress.”
“Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.”
Source: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
“Crawfish have ding dongs and vaginas.”
“Crawford and I are enjoying a hotly-contested game of tiddlywinks when Dad arrives to announce that dinner is ready. We make our way through to the dining room and take our seats at the old mahogany table, which is full of food. We all spend the obligatory few seconds oohing and aahing over the wonderful job Dad’s done, before tucking in.
Within five minutes, the room is alive with conversation. To my left, Sophie is trying to decide which fictional world she would most like to live in, while at the other end of the table, Pete is holding forth to my parents about something that appears to involve salt, pepper, and both his forks. Across from me, Crawford is complaining loudly that the sauce on his pasta’s the wrong colour, and Rose is rattling off the impressive list of things that’ll be taken away from him if he doesn’t eat it. Ellie, bless her, is oblivious. She’s planted in her booster seat beside Rose, and most of her pasta is on her face or in her lap.”
Source: A Matter of Life and Death
“Crawford reacted in the fashion of small towns immemorial – some tongues wagged constantly, some people could not keep the pity and pleasure at someone else’s misfortune out of their voices and gazes – but mostly the community folded its protective wings around the Weintraub family like an awkward mother bird shielding its young”
Source: Hyperion
“Crawl when you're down. When you stand up, own your walk with confidence.”
“Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick.”
Source: The Schwa was Here
“crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.”
“Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.”
Source: Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There
“Crawling into the skin of the other (empathy). ‘It must be hard to …’ 176”
Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Every Day
“Crawling still gets you there.”
“crawling up into daddy's lap when dad was still DADDY nodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heart LISTENING to the thump...thump somewhere beneath muscle and breastbone I remember his arms their sublime ENCIRCLING and the shawdow of his voice "I love you, little girl. Put away your bad dreams. Daddy's here" I put them away, Until Daddy became my nightmare that one that came HOME from work everyday and instead of picking me up, chased me far far away”
“CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Craze of jimmi”
“Crazed with helplessness, I cursed God and wept, wondering if he wept also.”
Source: Watchmen
“Crazed with helplessness, I cursed God and wept, wondering if He wept also. But then, what use are His tears, if His help was denied me?”
Source: Watchmen
“Crazier the torture, sweeter the memories.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Craziest thing I ever did for love? It's all crazy. None of it makes any sense, does it, when you're in love with someone. It doesn't make any logical sense. I guess that's why they call it being in love.”
“Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.”
“Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.”
Source: The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection
“Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.”
“Craziness is good. Crazy people are happy, free, they have no hindrance. But since you have many attachment, you are only a little crazy. This is not crazy enough. You must become completely crazy. Then you will understand.”
“Craziness is only a matter of degree, and there are lots of people besides me who have the urge to roll heads. They go to stock-car races and the horror movies and the wrestling matches they have in Portland Expo. Maybe what she said smacked of all those things, but I admired her for saying out loud, all the same--the price of honesty is always high. She had an admirable grasp of the fundamentals. Besides, she was tiny and pretty.”
Source: Rage
“Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.”
Source: Cat's Eye
“Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!”
“Crazy by definition is
Knowing that true sanity is
A figment of the educated mind”
Source: My Sanity: The Ramblings of a Mad Man
“Crazy, crazy kids on a crazy night, a night for pink balloons all over the sky and a candyfruit tree at the end of the street, and he rocked his girl in his arms, sugartight, and he was king of the moon and the streamers and popcorn.”
Source: The Skinner
“Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.”
Source: Magic Strikes
“Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had.”
“Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation;
When patience was a virtue...but I wasn't used to waitin.”
“Crazy gets all the knives.”
“Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.”
“Crazy got nothin on us" Neesa”
“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.”
Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world.... It was this vision that gave him his great power, for when he went into a fight, he had only to think of that world to be in it again, so that he could go through anything and not be hurt”
Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.”
“Crazy Horse was dead. He was brave and good and wise. He never wanted anything but to save his people, and he fought the Wasichus only when they came to kill us in our own country. He was only thirty years old. They could not kill him in battle. They had to lie to him and kill him that way.
I cried all night, and so did my father.”
Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.”
“Crazy is a compliment.”
Source: Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags
“Crazy is a state of mind usually interpreted by other people.”
Source: Every Part of You: Taunts Me
“Crazy is crazy, but lonely is lonely. I do not know which is the saddest.”
Source: Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder
“Crazy is good. The alternative is normal.”
“Crazy is my brand.”