C Quotes
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“Crisis tells us we are never in control. We can only trust God who controls every circumstance.”
“Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.”
“Crisp autumn leaves whip our faces, but then, we break free from the canopy. Nothing but vast sky surrounds us above and all around. Below, Fable Town stretches as far as my eyes can see. Adjusting his satchel strap around his chest, Scorch straightens out his flight path to run parallel to the ground. We skim the clouds over dwarfs' cottages and fairy rings of red-capped mushrooms. Scorch crests a hill, and the impenetrable canopy of trees that makes up Villain Village stretches beneath us. In the distance, the spire of a crumbling, dark castle rises over a tangled, thorny thicket.
A salty breeze ruffles my eyelashes, and before I know it, Scorch plunges down a cliff and flies us over the Fabled Sea. I spot the deep blue water where we fell. The half-submersed shipwreck. The beach where we collapsed in tearful, soggy joy. We fly over a rocky promontory where the mermaid warbles her siren song up at us, but the wind blows away her words before she can ensnare us.”
Source: Hour of the Pumpkin Queen
“Crisp night, December sky
Dusk bleeds into midnight.
Shadows of fresh snow
Drift from your eyes to mine.”
Source: Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel
“Crispus Attucks, who said, Don't shoot till you see the whites! Never got a dinner!”
“Crispy Potato Tots Filled with Cheese, Bacon and Green Onion. Served with Sour Cream and Sriracha Mayo”
“Crist noted that his office has received multiple fraud complaints in which potential buyers said they lost thousands of dollars. I don't know if we've seen anything of this exact nature before, .. We won't tolerate it.”
“Cristal go by the cases, wait hold up that was racist
I would prefer the Aces, ain't no different when you taste it.
A 40 ounce to chase it, that's just an understatement.”
“Cristiano anni fa mi ha raccontato una storia sul nostro lago: sorgeva, in passato, al centro una città di nome Sabazia, era una
città florida, il commercio era fiorente, l’agricoltura nelle terre limitrofe non vedeva siccità o pericoli, c’era abbondanza al mercato, lungo le vie, ma la sua gente era contrita, velenosa, acre, non c’era nessuno che possedesse qualità. Così la città e i suoi abitanti vennero puniti da Dio che decise di far piovere molta acqua sulle case, sulle mura, nei cortili, sui panni stesi ai fili e sulle aie dove
venivano governati i maiali, sopra alle stalle dei cavalli, l’acqua scese e scese, tanto da portare una inondazione che coprì Sabazia. Solo una fanciulla si salvò perché un giovane misterioso le consigliò di correre via con lui.
La ragazza chiese perdono a Dio e si rifugiò in una chiesa, lontana dal paese, lì dichiarò che sarebbe per sempre stata lodevole, santa.
Guardo il lago, è tornato cupo ai miei occhi, immobile, non emette alcun suono, sembra moribondo, caduto in un sonno insalubre.
[...]
Mi è chiaro, solo ora con assoluta certezza, che al centro del lago non c’è alcuna città Sabazia, come non c’è un presepe sotto il molo,
come non ci sono fantasmi al Castello Odescalchi o streghe che si aggirano tra le dune di sabbia quando il sole cala, questi paesi
vivono di narrazioni posticce, hanno creato mitologia sui sassi e le pietre vulcaniche, con la loro leggenda volevano esorcizzare i bruti e gli svergognati, punirli, sciacquarne via i peccati, ma le storie non bastano, non raccontano tutte le verità, ed è evidente che non c’è
stata conversione, non è esistita nessuna donna superstite, nessuna donna benedetta; esistono solo le donne di sangue, come me.”
Source: L'acqua del lago non è mai dolce
“Cristiano is an explosive type of player, with great technique, but he's still not as gifted as Messi in my opinion. Messi is more of a genius than Cristiano. Cristiano is so strong physically, so powerful, but Messi has more creativity.”
“Cristiano is better than Messi, without a doubt. He's more of an all-round player”
“Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi.”
“Cristiano Ronaldo has done massive things in both the Premier League and in the Champions League, but Messi is the best though and I am convinced that next year he will win the Ballon d'Or.”
“Cristiano Ronaldo loves scoring goals. Only HE can achieve what he's achieving.”
“Cristiano Ronaldo's was the most exciting debut I've ever seen. There have been a few players described as 'The New George Best' over the years, but this is the first time it's been a compliment to me.”
“Cristiano’s grades are excellent. Your parents and I discussed getting you a tutor. Perhaps Cristiano would be just the man.”
Armani gave a slight nod. “I would be most honored to do so.” Tutor me in death, maybe.
“But we won’t even have the same classes! Wouldn’t another senior be better for him?”
“Cristiano has your same classes. He’s a junior.”
I gaped. “In what world is Armani here seventeen?”
Cristiano shrugged unapologetically. “They feed us better in Italy.”
Source: Demons in Disguise
“Cristiano smiled down. “Do not go off without me again.”
“Or me,” Ayden said from a few feet away. “And just so you know, I was going to catch her.”
“I do not doubt it. Here.” Cristiano gently passed me into Ayden’s arms.
Uh, thanks?” Ayden shifted me closer against his chest.
“You are welcome.” Cristiano took a step back, pulled a gun from his waistband, and trained it on Ayden’s forehead.”
Source: Demons in Disguise
“Cristina al principio siente que no tiene poder. [...] Está acostumbrada a que esa es la manera en la que la tratan. Ella se dio ese nivel porque para ella eso es lo normal. Entonces, cuando se van a casa de Aneena, de la tía, ahí es dónde ve que la vida realmente no es así, que ella puede cambiar.”
“Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.”
“Cristo, a través de las parábolas, nos muestra cómo se refleja la luz divina en las cosas de este mundo y en las realidades de nuestra vida diaria. A través de lo cotidiano quiere indicarnos el verdadero fundamento de todas las cosas y así la verdadera dirección que hemos de tomar en la vida de cada día para seguir el recto camino. Nos muestra a Dios, no un Dios abstracto, sino el Dios que actúa, que entra en nuestras vidas y nos quiere tomar de la mano. A través de las cosas ordinarias nos muestra quiénes somos y qué debemos hacer en consecuencia; nos transmite un conocimiento que nos compromete, que no sólo nos trae nuevos conocimientos, sino que cambia nuestras vidas. Es un conocimiento que nos trae un regalo: Dios está en camino hacia ti. Pero es también un conocimiento que plantea una exigencia: cree y déjate guiar por la fe.”
Source: Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
“Cristo buckled, dropping to his knees as he wept. Another senseless death, when he had survived to suffer on.”
Source: Sepulturum
“Cristo, el hijo de Dios, ha venido a la tierra y nos ha dicho que esta vida no es mas que un corto momento, una prueba, y, sin embargo, nos empeñamos en encontrar en el la felicidad”
Source: War and Peace
“Cristo es también y sobre todo el Revelador, cuya decisión es la única que hace posible la opción humana por Dios en una hora como la muerte» (p. 328). La angustia de Jesús en Getsemaní es algo mucho más radical que la angustia que asalta a cada hombre ante la muerte: es el choque frontal entre la luz y las tinieblas, entre la vida y la muerte, el verdadero drama de la decisión que caracteriza a la historia humana. En este sentido podemos aplicarnos a nosotros mismos, como hace Pascal, de manera totalmente personal, el acontecimiento del Monte de los Olivos: también mi pecado estaba en aquel cáliz pavoroso. Pascal oye al Señor en agonía en el Monte de los Olivos que le dice: «Aquellas gotas de sangre, las he derramado por ti» (cf. Pensées, VII, 553)”
Source: Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection
“Cristo, il fato ci sapeva fare quando doveva darti una lezione, anche se ti accorgevi sempre troppo tardi di averne bisogno: aveva passato decisamente troppo tempo ripiegato su se stesso, a rimuginare sul suo difetto fisico e sulla delusione che rappresentava per la sua famiglia e per la società. Per un sacco di tempo era stato un casino ambulante, un groviglio inestricabile, e Blay, che gli voleva bene, era stato risucchiato nel vortice.”
Source: Lover at Last
“Cristo no enseñó ni sufrió para que llegáramos a ser, aun en los amores naturales, más cuidadosos de nuestra propia felicidad. Si el hombre no deja de hacer cálculos con los seres amados de esta tierra a quienes ha visto, es poco probable que no haga esos mismos cálculos con Dios, a quien no ha visto. Nos acercaremos a Dios no con el intento de evitar los sufrimientos inherentes a todos los amores, sino aceptándolos y ofreciéndoselos a Él, arrojando lejos toda armadura defensiva. Si es necesario que nuestros corazones se rompan y si Él elige el medio para que se rompan, que así sea.”
Source: The Four Loves
“Cristo nos ofrece algo por nada. Incluso nos lo ofrece todo por nada. En cierto modo, toda la vida cristiana consiste en aceptar este asombroso ofrecimiento. Pero la dificultad está en alcanzar el punto en el que reconocemos qué todo lo que hemos hecho y podemos hacer es nada. Lo que nos habría gustado es que Dios hubiera tenido en cuenta nuestros puntos a favor y hubiese ignorado nuestros puntos en contra. Una vez más, en cierto modo, puede decirse que ninguna tentación es superada hasta que no dejamos de intentar superarla… hasta que no tiramos la toalla. Pero, claro, no podríamos «dejar de intentarlo» del modo adecuado y por la razón adecuada hasta que no lo hubiéramos intentado con todas nuestras fuerzas. Y, en otro sentido aún, dejarlo todo en manos de Cristo no significa, naturalmente, que dejemos de intentarlo. Confiar en El quiere decir, por supuesto, intentar hacer todo lo que Él dice. No tendría sentido decir que confiamos en una persona si no vamos a seguir su consejo. Así, si verdaderamente os habéis puesto en Sus manos, de esto debe seguirse que estáis tratando de obedecerle. Pero lo estáis haciendo de una manera nueva, de una manera menos preocupada.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“Cristo vino a liberar. Su mensaje fue liberador. Los esclavistas de todos los siglos siempre se han manifestado en contra de los defensores de la libertad. No fue extraño que a Jesús lo persiguieran.”
Source: Al pasar las horas: Lo mejor del blog de Miguel Ángel Núñez (Meditaciones matinales y reflexiones)
“Cristãos não conseguem nem aceitar que afogar seus filhos por não fazerem o que os pais querem é louco. Eu acredito que qualquer humano, exceto psicopatas, ficaram tristes com a notícia: “Onça Gaia: animal monitorado por ONG há 10 anos morre em queimada no Pantanal”. Mas revertemos essa notícia para “Onça Gaia: animal monitorado por ONG há 10 anos morre por desejo de Deus”, fica tudo okay. Deus matou vários animais inocentes no grande dilúvio, e nos fogos que a Bíblia tanto fala. No grande dia, arrebatamento, o mundo acabará, eles deixaram amigos e até parentes para trás. Eu acho que na verdade nunca pararam para pensar nisso. E se eles não conseguirem converter todos a tempo?”
Source: Seria a Bíblia um livro científico?: Por que a Bíblia Sagrada não deve ser levada a sério e como argumentar contra ela (Estudos Bíblicos para ateus 2)
“Cristãos não conseguem nem aceitar que afogar seus filhos por não fazerem o que os pais querem é louco. Internamente, fico rindo ao ouvir os cristãos justificando o grande dilúvio, como se Deus tivesse qualquer razão para matar não somente pessoas inocentes como bebês nas barrigas das mães, como animais inocentes. Sim, eu geralmente apresento isso, mas eles continuam justificando para garantir que Deus sempre será o herói da estória.”
Source: Seria a Bíblia um livro científico?: Por que a Bíblia Sagrada não deve ser levada a sério e como argumentar contra ela (Estudos Bíblicos para ateus 2)
“Criteria for friendship changes as we grow older; it becomes less of an exercise of connecting with a person’s interests and more an endeavor to connect with the person’s identity.”
“Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.”
“CRITIC OR CITRIC?
Anagram of ordinary passing judgement on talented
Kamil Ali”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“Critic vent spleen to eviscerate the more competent.”
“Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.”
“critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!”
“Critica obiectivă este precum un medicament, amară dar face bine.”
“Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.”
Source: The decline of the West
“Critical and feminist theorists show that most leadership research, including studies of transformational leadership, continue to present prescriptions - heroic or post-heroic - as if they were gender neutral. The critics argue that, although there is a search for a different kind of leader- a 'post-heroic hero' who displays characteristics different from the traditional model - even this leader continues 'to enjoy the same godlike reverence for individualism associated with traditional models'.”
Source: Leadership for the Disillusioned: Moving Beyond Myths and Heroes to Leading That Liberates
“Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life”
Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
“Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.”
“Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.”
“Critical journalism has gone out of fashion, or rather, it has been bought out. And so, we have much less of it than we did during the Vietnam era, where there was very critical reporting on the Vietnam War and a lot of disagreement among the media. Now you find that the media are much more homogenous, converging because they all must cater to the same community of advertisers. It's sad to see.”
“Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.”
“Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.”
“Critical Pedagogy empowers students to question and challenge oppressive social structures, fostering a sense of agency and social awareness essential for transformative teaching.”
“Critical personal writing enables the author to penetrate mental falsities that imprison him or her in fearfulness, bitterness, and jealously and encompass the reverential awe for the transcendental pathos of life, the small moments of happiness interspersed between stints of loneliness, sorrow, and hardship imbued in human life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a more democratic society. In the process, they often exaggerate the power of big media in order to frighten readers into taking action. I don't disagree with their concern about media concentration, but the way they frame the debate is self-defeating insofar as it disempowers consumers even as it seeks to mobilize them. Far too much media reform rhetoric rests on melodramatic discourse about victimization and vulnerability, seduction and manipulation, "propaganda machines" and "weapons of mass deception". Again and again, this version of the media reform movement has ignored the complexity of the public's relationship to popular culture and sided with those opposed to a more diverse and participatory culture. The politics of critical utopianism is founded on a notion of empowerment; the politics of critical pessimism on a politics of victimization. One focuses on what we are doing with media, and the other on what media is doing to us. As with previous revolutions, the media reform movement is gaining momentum at a time when people are starting to feel more empowered, not when they are at their weakest.”
Source: Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
“Critical play is characterized by a careful examination of social, cultural, political, or even personal themes that function as alternates to popular play spaces.”
Source: Critical Play: Radical Game Design
“Critical play means to create or occupy play environments and activities that represent one or more questions about aspects of human life . . . . Criticality in play can be fostered in order to question an aspect of a game’s 'content,' or an aspect of a play scenario’s function that might otherwise be considered a given or necessary.”
Source: Critical Play: Radical Game Design