C Quotes
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“Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!”
“Curtains are our prisoners; they feel free only when they escape out of the windows and fly in the air freely! The moment they wave in the wind like a proud flag is the best moment of their lives!”
“Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall
“Curtis Bane screamed and though I came around fast and fired in the same motion, he’d already pulled a heater and begun pumping metal at me. We both missed and I was empty, that drum clicking uselessly. I went straight at him. Happily, he too was out of bullets and I closed the gap and slammed the butt of the rifle into his chest. Should’ve knocked him down, but no. The bastard was squat and powerful as a wild animal, thanks to being a coke fiend, no doubt. He ripped the rifle from my grasp and flung it aside. He locked his fists and swung them up into my chin, and it was like getting clobbered with a hammer, and I sprawled into a row of trash cans. Stars zipped through my vision. A leather cosh dropped from his sleeve into his hand and he knew what to do with it all right. He swung it in a short chopping blow at my face and I got my left hand up and the blow snapped my two smallest fingers, and he swung again and I turned my head just enough that it only squashed my ear and you better believe that hurt, but now I’d drawn the sawback bayonet I kept strapped to my hip, a fourteen-inch grooved steel blade with notched and pitted edges—Jesus-fuck who knew how many Yankee boys the Kraut who’d owned it gashed before I did for him—and stabbed it to the guard into Bane’s groin. Took a couple of seconds for Bane to register it was curtains. His face whitened and his mouth slackened, breath steaming in the chill, his evil soul coming untethered. He had lots of gold fillings. He lurched away and I clutched his sleeve awkwardly with my broken hand and rose, twisting the handle of the blade side to side, turning it like a car crank into his guts and bladder, putting my shoulder and hip into it for leverage. He moaned in panic and dropped the cosh and pried at my wrist, but the strength was draining from him and I slammed him against the wall and worked the handle with murderous joy. The cords of his neck went taut and he looked away, as if embarrassed, eyes milky, a doomed petitioner gaping at Hell in all its fiery majesty. I freed the blade with a cork-like pop and blood spurted down his leg in a nice thick stream and he collapsed, folding into himself like a bug does when it dies.”
Source: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
“Curtis Curtis jackson..he's the fakest thug I ever did see”
“Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.”
“Curtis, where was that enthusiasm in the match? You might have won.”
“Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.”
“Curvature of Information
Primordial primary quality informs all reality, interconnecting and providing everything with adequate apparatuses to operate within the secondary (formerly primary) and tertiary (previously secondary) qualities. Space, with the objects in it, is the information we receive as presented to our senses. For instance, we can measure the length, depth, and width of anything, thinking that we measured the actual space. However, we measured nothingness enveloped by “information,” which creates space or reality presented to our senses. The underlying reality of everything always stays the same: nothingness in the Web of Information. The “volume” of anything is nothingness. Whenever we measure something, we measure the message, information, or appearance (illusion) of space enveloping nothingness. Nothingness is the actual “volume” (space) of anything, and the appearance is immaterial information occupying it. All the void “touched” by the Primordial Being and its “Force” is “contaminated” and cannot be treated as pure nothingness.
The curvature of space is one of the consequences of this “programming.” We live in the Web of Information, which we experience as the “material” Universe. The Universe is the Web of Information. The curvature of space is, in fact, the curvature of information, not of space or matter. This reality, which is information, provides us with data about its qualities, properties, and features that we can analyze and measure. However, all that is an “illusion,” actually an objective reality, different from the reality we thought we lived in. Reality is a convention. Although our experience of reality may be the same despite the new knowledge, our understanding and concepts will most likely shift in ways unimagined before. The new understanding of reality requires and may cause a major paradigm shift, perhaps the largest one in the history of humankind. Unless obstructed by some natural cataclysmic events or wars, this paradigm shift may result in a new renaissance in society, science, and the arts like never before.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Curve of buttocks and bare shoulders, diaphanous fabric skimming over full, rounded breasts, a gentle swell of belly. Fertile and feminine. Curves and plumpness artfully displayed in a glorification
of womanhood.”
Source: The Engraver's Secret
“Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.”
“Curves and clothes have no bearing on character.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Curves are so emotional.”
“Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.”
“Curves, Clothes, Character (The Sonnet)
Your abs won't last, your racks won't last,
Eventually everything ends up in wrinkle.
Polish the outside all you want but,
All curves are crookery if the heart is wrinkled.
Slimness is not the same as fitness,
Skinship is not the same as kinship.
Etiquettes don't elevate the world,
Apparels don't bring liberty and leadership.
Waste not the life on measuring your waist,
All waist is waste if the backbone is malnourished.
Fitness is fiction when shallowness runs rampant,
All curves are filth if the being remains prejudiced.
Curves and clothes have no bearing on character whatsoever.
Better a character out of shape, than a shape without character.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Curving back within myself I create the world around me.”
“Curvy is something to be proud of.”
“Cus D’Amato, who trained Mike Tyson, said emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down. Many great athletes use anger in a positive way. Anger motivates them. Anger steels their resolve. It is much better to become angry than to become afraid.”
Source: Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence
“Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.”
“Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.”
Source: The Positive Principle Today
“Cushions and rugs, goblets and trays and half-full decanters cover every surface- all of them in a riot of colours: vermillion and umber, peacock blue and bottle green, gold and damson plum.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“Cuspi um caroço seboso, mais um tumor venenoso que aquele ar gestara nas minhas entranhas.”
Source: Asfixia
“Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school.”
Source: Misadventurous
“Custa muito caro fosse
não saber o valor da natureza,
da sua rica essência e beleza
das pessoas e da natureza em si.
O olhar refinado naquilo que aprendeu.
Uma vez que caia em si mesmo...
Poderá já ser tarde buscar a esmo
voltar no tempo e valorizar o que perdeu.”
Source: Amor de Pierrot
“Custa muito, vale pouco; tudo.”
Source: Asfixia
“Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Custaria mas muito caro fosse
não saber o valor da natureza,
da sua rica essência e beleza
das pessoas e da natureza em si.
O olhar refinado naquilo que aprendeu.
Uma vez que caia em si mesmo...
Poderá já ser tarde buscar a esmo
voltar no tempo e valorizar o que perdeu.”
Source: Mulher: verbo intransitivo
“Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.”
“Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.”
“Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.”
“Custom adapts itself to expediency.”
Source: The Annals
“Custom alone regulates morals.”
Source: The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France
“Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.”
“Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.”
“Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“Custom determines what is agreeable.”
Source: Pensees: Thoughts on Religion
“Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site, the specific target that they want to hit. But it depends, this level of sophistication, on the budget and the quality of the actor who's instigating the attack. If it's a country that's less poor or less sophisticated, it'll be a less sophisticated attack.”
“Custom does often reason overrule.”
“Custom doth make dotards of us all.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books
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“Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.”
“Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.”
Source: A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism
“Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.”
Source: Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage
“Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more importantly, to change it. Such is the impulse behind our conversation with the vampryoteuthis”
Source: Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste, Vol. 23
“Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.”
“Custom is almost a second nature.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Custom is often only the antiquity of error.”