C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Cuanto más conozco el mundo, más me irrita, y todos los días confirmo mi creencia en la inconstancia del carácter humano y en la poca que me inspiran las apariencias de mérito o talento.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Cuanto más des vida,
más vida tendrás.
Mientras más luz des,
más luz tendrás.”
Source: Poesía Humanitaria: Cien Sonetos Para Mi Familia Mundial
“Cuanto más despierto está un hombre ante las cosas que lo rodean, más dormido está; y su despertar es peor que su sueño.”
“Cuanto más difícil resulta algo, más valor se le da, esta era la lección de Clive.”
Source: Maurice
“Cuanto más estudio la historia de México más evidente me resulta que Estados Unidos siempre ha interferido en la política mexicana, con una modalidad política basada en «pórtate bien o te muevo el tapete». Recuerdo que Raúl solía decir que cuando el Tío Sam estornuda a México le da pulmonía.”
Source: A la sombra del ángel
“Cuanto más fuerte el carácter, más frágil el alma. La dureza aparente es la armadura de los que pusieron demasiado corazón y fueron heridos.”
“Cuanto más fuerte se balancea el péndulo hacia una dirección, más violentamente se balanceará hacia atrás.”
Source: Thoughts in the Ether: Pensamientos en el Éter
“Cuanto más fácilmente se entrega la mujer, más frío e imperioso es el hombre. Pero cuanto más cruel e infiel le es, cuanto más juega de una manera criminal, cuanta menos piedad le demuestra, más excita sus deseos, más la ama y la desea.”
Source: Venus in Furs
“Cuanto más inteligente es una mujer, más hermosa la veo. Me encantan las que se maquillan con conocimiento, poesía, buena música y bellas palabras.”
“Cuanto más leo y más oigo, más consciente soy de lo mucho que ignoro. Quiero saberlo todo.”
Source: Bitterblue
“Cuanto más materialmente inexplicables resultan la propia devoción y compromiso por una causa sagrada -es decir, cuanto más absurdas son-, mayor es la fe que otros depositan en ella y más compromiso genera esta fe por parte de ellos.”
Source: This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
“Cuanto más nos rindamos a lo que no puede ser, mejor podremos controlar lo que puede ser.”
“Cuanto más notable e importante era el escritor, más respetuoso y humilde era sin excepciones su trato" - "Rialto 11" de Belén Rubiano”
“cuanto más perfecto es el amor, mayor es la locura, y mayor la felicidad.”
Source: Praise of Folly
“Cuanto más sabemos sobre el mundo, más pequeños e insignificantes para su funcionamiento descubrimos que somos.”
Source: From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
“Cuanto más se acercaba a su sueño, más difíciles se tornaban las cosas...lo que funcionaba era la prueba de persistencia y del coraje de quien busca su leyenda personal, por eso él no podía apresurarse ni impacientarse; si actuaba así, terminaría sin ver las señales que Dios había puesto en su camino.”
Source: Soñando Despierta
“Cuanto más sincero sea un hombre, más puramente intelectual será la idea pues en ese caso no estará teñida por sus deseos, apetencias o prejuicios.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Cuanto más te acercas a la auténtica materia, a la piedra y al aire y al fuego y a la madera, muchacho, el mundo resulta más espiritual. Toda esa gente que se considera materialista a ultranza no sabe nada de eso. Se consideran gente práctica y tienen la cabeza llena de ideas y nociones confusas. -Levantó la mano-. Escucha esa ardilla.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Cuanto más te burlas, más alto vuelo.
Cuanto más ignoras, más evidente me vuelvo.
Cada acto de odio acaba alimentando mi luz.
Cuanto más persigues, más inmortal me vuelvo.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Cuanto más te repites algo, más lo crees”
“Cuanto peor es el infractor, más devoto resulta ser.”
Source: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“Cuanto Satanás nos esclaviza al pasado, Dios nos invita a ver la gloria de Su futuro.”
“Cuantos más libros ha leído un autor, más difícil resulta saber a quién plagia.”
“Cuatro principios a tener en cuenta: Lo contrario es también frecuente. No basta mover para renovar. No basta renovar para mejorar. No hay nada que sea absolutamente empeorable”
“Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining themselves with a heavenly ichor that combines loyalty, criticism, cheerfulness, durability, rage, beer and hope, in exquisite proportions.”
Source: The Roger Angell Baseball Collection: The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season Ticket
“Cuba and Belgium are both countries of modest size, surrounded by large, powerful and often hostile powers.”
“Cuba cannot go back to capitalism; we know all the tragic experience that it has generated for Latin America and the world. We also know the positive experiences of socialism not only in our geographic environment but also like what we are witnessing in China.”
“Cuba changed you. I changed you. And you are changing me.”
Source: Cuba Undercover
“Cuba continues to be a source of instability in the region. For example, historic numbers of people are fleeing the island of Cuba, putting migratory pressure on the United States. Number two, this Cuban government is anti-American. They sponsor - they allow the Chinese and the Russians to conduct espionage, electronic espionage and others from the island of Cuba.”
“Cuba es nuestra tierra, pero no es más que un pueblo de campo, con dimensiones gigantes, donde el alcalde y los terratenientes tienen control de todo.”
“Cuba fikirkan, pelangi adalah penyebaran seluruh warna di dalam spektrum cahaya. Berapa warnakah ada dalam spektrum cahaya? Jawapannya adalah dekat infiniti, bukan? Maka, jumlah warna pelangi adalah terlalu banyak sehingga infiniti juga. Mungkin tona warna dekat-dekat, maka otak manusia tak boleh bezakan.
Masa sekolah bolehlah cakap 7 warna, sekarang sudah faham tentang spektrum, tak bolehlah memikirkan masih tujuh lagi.”
“Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to the white South Africans that the end is coming. They can't just hope to subdue the continent on racist grounds.”
“Cuba harbor fugitives of American justice. There are people living on the island of Cuba who have violated American law, including those who have stolen millions of dollars from Medicare fraud in South Florida and have fled to Cuba. Those are three reasons right there to care about what is happening on the island of Cuba, which happens to be 90 miles from our shores, basically a neighboring country.”
“Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.”
“Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.”
“Cuba has nine official National Public Holidays
January 1st - Liberation Day & New Year’s
Liberation Day is also called “Triunfo de la Revolucion.” This day celebrates the removal of dictator Batista from power and the start of Fidel Castro’s power.
January 2nd - Victory of the Armed Forces
A holiday commemorating its revolution’s history.
Good Friday
Good Friday became a national holiday following the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. The first Good Friday recognized as a holiday was in 2014, according to Granma, the Official Body Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
May 1st - International Labour Day
Called “Dia de los Trabajadores,” Havana-Guide.com noted there are many celebrations this holiday, including “speeches on the ‘Plaza de la Revolucion’ celebrating the work force and the Communist party.”
July 25th till 27th - Commemmoration of the Assault to Moncada/National Rebellion Day
This three-day long holiday remembers the 1953 capture and exile of Fidel Castro, according to VisitarCuba. This happened near Santiago in the Moncada army barracks. This week is also celebrated with carnivals in Santiago as the saint day of St. James (Santiago).
October 19th - Independence Day, “Dia de la Independencia”
Independence Day celebrates the early independence of Cuba in 1868, when Carlos Manuel Cespedes freed his slaves and began the War of Independence against Spain, according to Travel Cuba.
December 25, 2017 - Christmas, “Natividad”
Christmas has only recently been re-established as a holiday due to Pope John Paul’s visit in 1998.”
“Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].”
“Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.”
“Cuba is a poor country. Most of the Cubans who leave only do so if they can find better economic conditions elsewhere. That's why we need changes. We have to offer incentives to keep people here. We have to create more attractive policies for young people, so that it also makes economic sense for them to stay. We need growth and a better quality of life for everyone.”
“Cuba is actually one where I am more optimistic because of the unique nature of Cuba - 90 miles off our shore with a massive ex-patriot population, now Cuban-American population that still have deep links to the island. There I am more confident that over time that the winds of commerce and telecommunication and travel start shifting the nature of that regime. But that's a small country which has almost a unique relationship to us.”
“Cuba is not like bourgeois democracy the ones that imposes the blockade to make Cuba change. We have direct elections. Here they put people on a list and then tell the people supposedly what they have done so they can be elected. That is the difference and why we say our democracy is truly participatory and popular.”
“Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.”
“Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.”
“Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time.”
“Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.”
“Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.”
“Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves.”
“Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.”
“Cuba was fantastic, at least just in terms of... Not to romanticize or glorify it, but just seeing a place that had not really been touched by the hand of American capitalism. Because it's a genuinely different place. A lot of times when you travel, things start to feel the same from place to place to place, because the same people own everything all around the world.”
“Cuba was in some ways a de facto state of the United States before 1959, given its proximity and given its neocolonial status.”