C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Crocodile socks will always eat your feet.”
“Crocodiles and ducks eat fish from the same lake, then why do we perceive the crocodile as cruel?”
Source: Quantraz
“Crocodiles are easy,' Steve said. 'They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.”
Source: Steve & Me
“Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.”
“Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.”
“Crocodiles. I’ve been catching them since I was nine. No problem.”
“Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works
“Croire au soleil quand tombe l'eau.”
“Croire qu’il lui appartient de dépasser sa condition et de s’orienter vers celle de surhomme, c’est oublier qu’il a du mal à tenir le coup en tant qu’homme, et qu’il n’y parvient qu’à force de tendre sa volonté, son ressort, au maximum.”
Source: The fall into time
“Crois-moi, il n'y a pas de grand douleur, pas de grands repentirs, de grands souvenirs. Tout s'oublie, même les grandes amours. C'est ce qu'il y a de triste et d'exaltant à la fois dans la vie. Il y a seulement une certaine façon de voir les choses et elle surgit de temps en temps. C'est pour ça qu'il est bon quand même d'avoir eu un grand amour, une passion malheureuse dans sa vie. Ça fait du moins un alibi pour les désespoirs sans raison dont nous sommes accables.”
Source: A Happy Death
“Crois-moi, la seule chose que tu peux contrôler c’est ta façon d’interpréter les événements.”
Source: Le Mage du Kremlin
“Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valour pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, the HELL with you!”
“Cromer, the British consul general, believed that providing subsidized education was not the province of government, and he also believed that education could foster dangerous nationalist sentiments.”
Source: Women and Gender in Islam
“Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.”
“Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.”
Source: Cronkite
“Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.”
Source: Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)
“Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.”
“Crook, philanderer, asshole. Champion, genius, father. How are you supposed to weigh up someone's life?”
Source: The Fortune Seller
“Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.”
Source: The Collected Shorter Poems
“Crooked glasses and that dang-awful knit sweater,” I drawl, shaking my head, “mid-sneeze while chomping on a soggy burrito. I’m sure everyone wants to see that.”
Source: Truth or dare
“Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: In Four Books
“Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.”
Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ
“Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours. Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend.”
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies
“Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend." "Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.”
Source: The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves
“Crooked world, straight world, same rules - everybody had a hand out for the envelope.”
Source: Harlem Shuffle
“Crooks are early adopters.”
“Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.”
“Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.”
“Crosby is a great player, but I'd have to say Ovechkin, who is also a great player but doesn't have the same kind of support, and who does something great on almost every shift.”
“Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense”
Source: Wicked
“Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.”
Source: Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
“Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.”
“Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.”
“Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time.”
Source: Cross Creek
“Cross fit has nothing on my daily grind, the devil contacted me and asked about franchising my daily grind out to hell for their gym.”
“Cross-gender behaviour is seen as less acceptable in boys than it is in girls: unlike the term ‘tomboy’ there is nothing positive implied by its male counterpart, the ‘sissy’.”
Source: Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
“Cross!" I called. I just couldn't bring myself to say "Archer" out loud. I'd have felt like I was in an episode of Masterpiece Theatre: "Archer! Let us fetch a spot of tea, old boy!”
Source: Hex Hall
“Cross my heart and hope to die." He put a hand on his chest mockingly.
"At least our hopes are aligned.”
Source: The Devil Wears Black
“Cross my wooden leg, swear on my glass eye.”
“cross-national studies show that the U.S. poverty rate, which stands persistently above 12 percent, is not only the highest poverty rate of any advanced industrial nation, but is more than twice the average for that group.
Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 276”
“Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.”
“Cross over a leg and chase the stars.
Lift your eyes to the poet’s sky.
Break your mentality out of the bars.
Teach your identity how to fly.”
Source: Poetic Cognition
“Cross over children. All are welcome. All welcome. Go into the Light. There is peace and serenity in the Light.”
“cross that person off your invitation list.”
Source: Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More
“Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.”
“Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.”
“Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Cross-country running was so beautiful with all the trails and the lake regions ... very physical and also a bit spiritual, where you could come over the mountain and all of a sudden you'd see a Buddhist landscape fog.”
“Cross-cultural reality testing forces people to examine both their own and others' understandings of reality. Most people simply assume that the
way they look at things is the way things really are, and judge other cultures' views of reality before understanding them. These judgments are
based on ethnocentrism, which closes the door to further understanding and communication. Furthermore, ethnocentric judgments keep missionaries from examining their own beliefs and values to determine which of them are based on biblical foundations and which on their cultural beliefs.”
“Cross-dressing is more of a set of actions or behaviors and not synonymous with gender identity (straight, gay, bisexual, transgender, among others).”