C Quotes
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“Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure.”
Source: A Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the Statutes and Judicial Decisions of All Jurisdictions of the United States and Canada
“Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.”
Source: Evidence in trials at common law
“Cross-generational sex is the phenomenon in which young girls are given material goods in exchange for sex. All girls are vulnerable to it, particularly orphans.”
“Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.”
“Crossed-over spirits were all once someone's significant someone and they still are. Love never dies.”
“Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.”
Source: Howard Zinn on Democratic Education
“Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.”
“Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.”
“Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified”
“Crosses?" "Definitely" "Why?" "Because they're evil, soulless, bloodsucking fiends?" "So was my sixth-grade gym teacher, but he wasn't afraid of a cross.”
Source: Glass Houses
“Crossfire is., pre-eminently, a film noir and it is this fact which throws most doubt on the social reading offered by many Anglo-American critics. The film noir is definable partly in thematic and partly in stylistic terms, but what seems incontestible is that the meanings spoken by the genre are less social, relating to the problems (such as antisemitism) of a [particular society, and more metaphysical, having to do with angst and loneliness as essential elements of the human condition. The latter are substantially the meanings spoken by Crossfire.”
Source: Cinema, Culture, Scotland: Selected Essays
“CrossFit Games athletes are renowned for their ability to suffer, but this event tested everyone’s limits of endurance, stamina, fortitude, and pain tolerance.”
Source: Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes
“CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.”
“Crossing a single street transformed the way people talked, determined the size and condition of the homes, the dimension and character of the dreams.”
Source: The Underground Railroad
“Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day.”
Source: The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi
“Crossing barriers can be as simple as a smile.”
“Crossing lines that can never be uncrossed.
Clangoring out words that can never be forgot.
Leaving welts behind with their lashing tongues.
Caring not of the unsaintly bell they have rung.
Oh, bitter hearts of selfish minds
You know not the poison you leave behind.”
“Crossing millions of years
A light has appeared
In front of the tunnel
emerging out of the mist
A shape enters into the life
As I slowly start to exist
You may call it birth
And this is the beginning.”
Source: The Main Character Act
“Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.”
“Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian thought has flowed, and is still flowing into the veins of other nations of the globe, whether in a distinct or in some subtle unknown way. Perhaps to us belongs the major portion of the universal ancient inheritance.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Crossing the Atlantic on that new day was supposed to be a sharp delineation, a from-now-on demarcation in my life story. What I took off from was not supposed to arrive with me upon landing or ever pulse in me again. From the ocean and sky and the hours in flight, I intended to extract a selective, permanent amnesia.”
Source: The Look of Amie Martine
“Crossing the Bridge: In time you'll find the answers you need in the language that makes the most sense to you.”
Source: The Messy Joys of Being Human: A Guide to Risking Change and Becoming Happier
“Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each generation being better educated than the last. Focusing on public institutions that educate more than three-fourths of U.S. students, Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson provide compelling arguments that institutions and policymakers must find new ways to overcome deeply entrenched patterns if our country is to regain its position as the most educated.”
“Crossing the finish line is paired with a sense of emptiness, having toiled over many months (if not years) and nothing remains for a fulfilled dream. Treasure the journey.”
“Crossing the heart-bridge; entering cosmos.”
Source: Cake in the Blackbird Stew
“Crossing the Jordan from east to west, Israel is a new humanity, restored to an Eden that has expanded to become a garden land. They're baptized in the Jordan as a priestly people, entering sacred territory, the holy land.”
Source: Baptism: A Guide to Life from Death
“Crossing the limit is not my style
My footsteps meander less than a mile
I travel the world perhaps in a minute
Yet a dream, to me, is never infinite!”
“Crossing the prairie he had learned something that he knew to be a contradiction: that a constant sound—like the slithering of wind-blown grass—can become its own silence. Here at the edge of the mountain ranges another lesson became clear: this dichotomous land had made some claim upon his soul.
The plains seemed to go on forever, the gently rolling land seeming to mirror the endless sky. The vastness of it all gave him his first seed of hope. Here, in this spacious country where a man was constantly dwarfed by the grandeur of his surroundings, he might learn to burn up his past and let the sparks scatter to the stars. Under this broad Western sky there seemed to be more directions, more possibilities . . . not just about what to do with his life . . . but also what kind of man to be.”
Source: Indigo Heaven
“Crossing the room, he stopped infront of me. "I'm not going to bite."
"That's good."
"Unless you want me to," He said with a devilish grin.”
Source: Onyx
“Crossing the small wooden bridge, just past the rubble, Gabe ducked off to the left and swooped underneath into hiding. Once sure he was secure, and could not be seen by those that passed overhead, Gabe collapsed on to the dirt and grass. Turning on his side, his body convulsed, and relieved itself of any food that had been in his belly. Rachel was right. He was a liability. Anyone who tried to protect him ended up paying a high price. He didn’t know if his old friends were dead, but he was certain whatever fate had found them must have been bad.”
Source: The Shield Prophecy
“Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.”
“Crossing the threshold of the familiar, as we give in to the wild call of the spirit, that's when the dance begins--between shadow and light, dawn and dusk, unfolding as a journey of becoming.”
“Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light, And hastening on with eager intent, Arrive at the rainbow's end, And here uncover the pot of gold Buried deep in the heart of a friend.”
“Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.”
“Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.”
“CROSSROAD
Lights flicker above the crossroad shining in green now and then for people who won't cross and red for others - which won't stop;
The dull grey splits the city in pieces of lines and corners, sometimes outshined by heavy rain and flooded glimpses of chaos;
Broken glass upon crimson roads empty silence and nothing to say - while the city sleeps on and will awake, eventually.”
“Crossroads, what a disaster. Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted and no one is held responsible....people ought to be asking, 'What are you in business for?'”
“Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”
“Crouched in the broken shadow with the sun at his back and holding the trap at eyelevel against the morning sky he looked to be truing some older, some subtler instrument. Astrolabe or sextant. Like a man bent at fixing himself someway in the world. Bent on trying by arc or chord the space between his being and the world that was. If there be such space. If it be knowable.”
Source: The Crossing
“Crouched on the roof between BEx and Liz, I wasn't a girl who had just broken up with her boyfriend; I looked at my watch and check my gear instead of crying. I had a mission objective and not a broken heart.”
Source: Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You
“Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they find, succumbing to an intangible beatitude that takes them for a brief escape into another dimension. Both sorts of gardener are besotted; both get their hands dirty; think and talk gardening; but on the threshold of another's garden, each use a different set of whiskers.”
“CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary adventure where the characters seem set free from the force of gravity.”
“Crow paced back and forth, his form flickering like flame. "It's been a thousand years, Alister. I never intended for anyone to find it, so it's very well protected. One little misstep, and you and my line will be history." "Since when are you so concerned about your line?" Han said. Crow stared at him for a long moment. "Since I found out I had one.”
“Crow walked toward her, arms outstretched like a man in a dream, which he was, in a way. Sometimes a dream is enough.”
“Crowbars give you that personal touch you don't get with gun-killin'.”
“Crowd action is the outcome of agreement based on concurrence of emotion rather than of thought.”
Source: The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government
“Crowd is just a bunch of heads, it is their leader who is the mind.”
“Crowded bus travel can be unpleasant, yet humbling, teaching us patience and humility amidst discomfort.”
“Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.”
“Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.”