C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Can’t you nudge her into submission? (Taryn) Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I’d fry my brain trying. (Sphinx)”
“Cap and trade is a sledge hammer to freedom.”
“Cap Boso? How could I cut a guy with a name like that?”
“Cap the well, yes, clear up the mess, yes, make compensation, yes absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets BP rather than other companies? I don't think that would be right.”
“Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.”
Source: The Second Sex
“Capability-based strategy-execution is the only path leading to a sustainable digital transformation.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“Capability can handle challenges, it doesn't accept charity.”
“Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities become possible is something we have to judge.”
“Capability means imagination.”
Source: Think and Grow Rich: 2016 Special Edition
“Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other simple positions which respond to technique rather than to imagination.”
“Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up and can only be partially compensated by his employing his time allowance to the full.”
“Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with his logic.”
“Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.”
“Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.”
“Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.”
“Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible.”
“Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.”
“Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.”
Source: Under My Skin
“Capable psychonauts who think about thinking, about states of mind, about set and setting, can get things done not because they have more willpower or drive, but because they know productivity is a game played against a childish primal human predilection for pleasure and novelty that can never be excised from the soul. Your effort is better spent outsmarting yourself than making empty promises through plugging dates into a calendar or setting deadlines for push-ups.”
Source: You Are Not So Smart
“Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.”
“Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.”
“Capacity for joy Admits temptation.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.”
“Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.”
“Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.”
Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden
“Cape Town lived up to its name as the tavern of the seas. It was a wonderful fun place and I loved it. The weather was Mediterranean and after two weeks at sea, all the girls were beautiful. The crew was convinced that the constant sunshine, in this part of the world, had something to do with it but whatever the reason, it seemed to be true. Luckily I could get off the ship on a Saturday afternoon, when all of South Africa comes to a halt. For whatever reason South African tradition called for all the shops to close and only restaurants, bars, beer halls and other vital services remained open. For an otherwise stargy place, they got this one right.
I headed for Delmonico’s on Riebeeck Street across from the famous Alhambra Theatre where everyone went to have fun. When I got there I found the place packed, but luckily I found a seat at a table, in a corner that was not quite as loud as the rest of the hall. It all started off all right while as we listened to the vivacious brunette playing a huge Hammond Organ. From the marque I knew that her name was Cherry Wainer, a celebrated musical star in South Africa.
It didn’t take long for me to introduce myself to her and before I knew it she had the manager find me a seat right up in front. The amplified sound of swing music filling the hall would have been enjoyable if it wasn’t for the crew of another ship that were causing a problem. I never looked for a fight but I also never back away from one and this time was no exception. It all happened very quickly and obviously they didn't take kindly to my intervention. One of them charged and took a wild swing that just missed me. I was lucky that he missed me but I didn't as I rammed him backward, pushing his total weight onto their table. The table collapsed and the libations on it toppled, totally soaking him.”
“Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses.”
“Capel said, "Remember that you're a woman." All too often I forgot that.”
“Capii che ero arrivata lì piena di superbia e mi resi conto che—in buona fede certo, con affetto—avevo fatto tutto quel viaggio soprattutto per mostrarle ciò che lei aveva perso e ciò che io avevo vinto. Ma lei se ne era accorta fin dal momento in cui le ero comparsa davanti e ora, rischiando attriti coi compagni di lavoro e multe, stava reagendo spiegandomi di fatto che non avevo vinto niente, che al mondo non c'era alcunché da vincere, che la sua vita era piena di avventure diverse e scriteriate proprio quanto la mia, e che il tempo semplicemente scivolava via senza alcun senso, ed era bello solo vedersi ogni tanto per sentire il suono folle del cervello dell'una echeggiare dentro il suono folle del cervello dell'altra.”
Source: The Story of a New Name
“Capii che Nuto aveva davvero ragione quando diceva che vivere in un buco o in un palazzo è lo stesso, che il sangue è rosso dappertutto, e tutti vogliono esser ricchi, innamorati, far fortuna.”
Source: La luna e i falò
“Capimmo così
che sela prima nascita era tutta
casualità, biologia, incertezza — l'altra,
questa, fu scelta, fu attesa, fu penitenza:
fu esporsi al mondo per abolirlo,
pazientemente riabitarlo.”
Source: Dolore minimo
“Capirsi è bene,non capirsi è meglio”
Source: Baffo racconta
“Capisco che l'adolescenza venga definita l'età ingrata. E' dura. Ma alla fine, a vent'anni suonati, le cose si aggiustano.”
Source: Oscar et la dame rose
“Capiscono più i mattoni delle zebre,
che non gli uomini delle donne.”
Source: Hotel De Grote L
“Capita a volte di incontrare persone totalmente sconosciute, di cui cominciamo a interessarci al primo sguardo, all'improvviso.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“Capita di incontrare persone che non dovrebbero mai finire insieme, in nessun caso, neanche fossero l'ultimo uomo e l'ultima donna rimasti sulla faccia della terra, per il dolore e la sofferenza che inevitabilmente si procureranno l'un altra.”
“Capital allocation is about getting resources where they need to be so that they can have the opportunity to be productive. If capital isn't wisely allocated, it can't be productive. And if capital isn't productive, civilization collapses.”
“Capital allocation is what makes all business processes possible.”
Source: Business Essentials
“Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.”
“Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.”
Source: Capital
“Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.”
Source: Underworld: Picador Classic
“Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.”
“Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always more or less alarming to persons unaccustomed to the operations of industry; whereas, on the contrary, landed property produces without any change of either quality or position.”
Source: A treatise on political economy, or, the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth
“capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.”
“Capital creates space-time.”
“Capital dictates the fate of humanity.”
“Capital does not 'beget profit' as Marx thought. The capital goods as such are dead things that in themselves do not accomplish anything. If they are utilized according to a good idea, profit results. If they are utilized according to a mistaken idea, no profit or losses result. It is the entrepreneurial decision that creates either profit or loss.”
Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses
“Capital does not participate where no profit can be made. Humanity is not quoted on the stock exchange.”
Source: On the Political Position of Social-Democracy
“Capital efficiently and frequently flows between bonds and stocks. It pays to keep an eye on yields offered by these markets.”