C Quotes
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“Carlyle's axiom that the true university of these days is a good collection of books has remained valid as far as I'm concerned, and even today I am convinced that one can become an excellent philosopher, historian, philologist, lawyer, or what will you, without having attended a university or even a Gymnasium.”
Source: The World of Yesterday
“Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of the stagnating atmosphere of materialism and dead orthodoxy into the region of the ideal. With the Master of Balliol, we believe that 'no English writer has done more to elevate and purify our ideas of life and to make us conscious that the things of the spirit are real, and that in the last resort there is no other reality.”
Source: Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series
“Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.”
Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON
“Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.”
“Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.”
“Carmelina points at the cabin. "What is that?"
I follow her finger to the log walls made of matchsticks, the miniature windows. The doorknob has fallen off along the way, but other than that it's intact. A perfect, tiny replica of the cabin in the forest. I can almost hear the Steller's jay, imagine its flash of blue, smell the lemony resin of the cedars. See daisies looped flower to stem upon dark hair. Feel a hand with a broad palm and rough fingers linked with mine.
I smile at Carmelina. "That is home.”
Source: Season of Salt and Honey
“Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection
“Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.”
“Carmen: “I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to college, but not be sad. I want you to stay exactly the same, but not be lonely or alone. I want to do the leaving, and not have you ever leave me.”
Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
“Carmen kicked at the dirt. She couldn't equate finding the virus at home with good luck. It was powerful, this thing, ruthless, a perfectly honed survivor for who knew how many millennia. Perhaps it was old as life itself, a malevolent offshoot of the first sampling of creation. Yet Leigh and Daintith thought they could track it to its lair and swat it like some bothersome insect.”
Source: Carriers
“Carmen measured her days in books.”
Source: The Christmas Bookshop
“Carmen measured her days in books. She kept a paperback under the desk for quiet periods, when she had remade as many window displays as one could usefully do in one day, and dusted, polished, straightened and checked the samples. When she had first started working at Dounston’s, they had always been so busy, and she’d kept her reading for the bus and lunchtime. Now, she could get through a novel every three days, and it kept getting faster. It was very, very worrying.”
Source: The Christmas Bookshop
“Carmen necesitaba afecto, no quería repetir lo que su madre había vivido, sin embargo, lo estaba repitiendo.”
Source: Cómo no tener novio
“Carmen [pet starling] brings joy and depth and insight to our family. I believe she has a good life, and I am glad she did not die with her nest mates. But not one single day passes that I do not wish I could see her fly free.”
Source: Mozart's Starling
“Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.”
“Carmen relished the site of Blanca sliding from her clothes like the sun cresting from storm clouds.”
Source: A Game in Yellow
“Carmen sat up when she heard a familiar trill from her computer. It was an instant message from Bee. Beezy3: Packing. Do you have my purple sock with the heart on the ankle? Carmabelle: No. Like I'd wear your socks. Carmen looked from her computer screen down to her feet. To her dismay, her socks were two faintly different shades of purple. She rotated her foot to get a view of her anklebone. Carmabelle: Ahem. Might possibly have sock.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection
“Carmen saves the young child and is rewarded with a look of gratitude. His smile turns into a puzzle as he no longer hold the little girl, but his dark haired goddess”
Source: My Beloved Tourniquet
“Carmen stood at the altar wearing a hand-beaded, curve hugging, ivory silk and chiffon gown that fit so perfectly, it looked as if it had been sewn on her. The fact that one of the breasts beneath the silken fabric was not her flesh but a form made of gel didn't detract from the gorgeousness of Carmen the slightest bit.”
Source: Schooling Carmen
“Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection
“Carmen will always be free.”
Source: Carmen
“Carmyn drops her glass from her lips first and bites into the slice of lime she's holding in her other hand. Her lips wrap around the flesh of the fruit, and my dick flexes in earnest. I've watched women suck on me and not look nearly that seductive.”
Source: Wicked Thing
“Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,
dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,
what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars?
What primal night does Man touch with his senses?
Ay, Love is a journey through waters and stars,
through suffocating air, sharp tempests of grain:
Love is a war of lightning,
and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,
your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages,
and a genital fire, transformed by delight,
slips through the narrow channels of blood
to precipitate a nocturnal carnation,
to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.”
“Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.”
Source: Arcadia
“Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.”
Source: Arcadia
“Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.”
“Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.”
“Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.”
“Carnally connected as one, we avow nothing can stop us.” ~ Kat Roberts”
Source: Honor My Desires: Harris & Kat Part III
“Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could.”
“Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books but then you go there and it's a pile of rocks next to a highway. There's actually a highway right next to it, but you don't see that in pictures.”
“Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.”
“Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.”
Source: White Cat
“Carney was hatless and gloveless, wearing her pink linen. Sam looked at her more than once.
“its just because he likes pink,” she told herself.”
Source: Carney's House Party
“Carnival Cruise Lines has its own successful way of doing things, which in this case involved creating a musical group called “The Hot Shots!” The word “Fantastic” comes to mind when thinking of this musical group! Each member auditioned separately at the Carnival rehearsal facility in Miami and then rehearsed as a group until they were ready for the big leagues aboard ship. Fortunately for me and my team, which includes Jorge Fernandez, a former guitar player from Cuba and now a top flight structural engineer in the Tampa Bay area, who helps me with much of my technical work; Lucy Shaw, Chief Copy Editor; Ursula Bracker, Proofer, and lucky me Captain Hank Bracker, award winning author (including multiple gold medals), were aboard the Carnival Legend and were privileged to listen to and enjoy, quite by chance, music that covered everything from Classical Rock, to Disco, to Mo Town and the years in between. Talented Judith Mullally, Carnival’s Entertainment Director, was on hand to encourage and partake in the music with her outstanding voice and, not to be left out, were members of the ship’s repertory cast, as well as the ship’s Cruise Director.
The popular Red Frog lounge on the Carnival Legend was packed to the point that one of the performances had to be held on the expansive Lido deck. However, for the rest of the nights, the lounge was packed with young and old, singing and dancing to “The Hot Shots!” - a musical group that would totally pack any venue in Florida.
Pheona Baranda, from the Philippines, is cute as a button and is the lead female singer, with a pitch-perfect soprano voice. Lucas Pedreira, from Argentina, is the lead male singer and guitar player who displayed endless energy and the ability to keep the audience hopping! Paulo Baranda, Pheona’s younger brother, plays the lead guitar to perfection and behind the scenes is the band’s musical director and of course is also from the Philippines. Ygor, from Israel, is the “on the money” drummer who puts so much into what he is doing, that at one point he hurt his hand, but refused to slow down. Nick is the bass guitar player, from down under New Zealand, and Marina, the piano and keyboard player, hails from the Ukraine.
As a disclaimer I admit that I hold shares in Carnival stock but there is nothing in it for me other than the pleasure of listening to this ultra-talented group which cannot and should not be denied. They were and still are the very best! However, I am sorry that just as a “Super Nova” they unfortunately can’t last. Their bright shining light is presently flaring, but this will only be for a fleeting moment and then will permanently go to black next year on January 2, 2020. That’s just the way it is, but my crew and I, as well as the many guests aboard the Carnival Legend, experienced music seldom heard anywhere, any longer…. It was a treat we will remember for years to come and we hope to see them again, as individual musical artists, or as perhaps with a new group sometime in the near future!”
“CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Carnot, one of a school of mathematicians who emphasized the relationship of mathematics to scientific practice, appears, in spite of the title of his work, to have been more concerned about the facility of application of the rules of procedure than about the logical reasoning involved.”
Source: The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
“Caro, I don’t understand,” I gasped. “Why do you love me?”
“Just because … because the sky is blue and the sea is green.”
And then I broke.
Everything she’d told me was true. She’d loved me ten years ago, and all the years in between, and she still loved me now. And I didn’t know why; I didn’t understand, but maybe that didn’t matter, because she loved me, and I loved her and I always had. It had only ever been her. My Caro.”
Source: Semper Fi
“Caro patriarcato, le colpe che ci attribuisci non sono del nostro corpo. Hai sbagliato tutto. Non siamo arrabbiate perchè abbiamo "le nostre cose", perché siamo isteriche, o perché non scopiamo abbastanza. Non sono gli "istinti misteriosi" a guidarci, né i nostri ormoni.
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Siamo arrabbiate perché le noste vite traboccano di desiderio, un desiderio che viene costantemente represso. Così cerchiamo spazi, occasioni, una voce per esprimerlo. Caro patriarcato, ci dici in continuazione che dovremmo essere contente di come stanno le cose, che noi stiamo esagerando. Ci sono le quote rosa, i sussidi di maternitá, le leggi di tutela. Ma questo non ci basta: "Vogliamo il pane, ma anche le rose". E non le chiediamo a te, ce le prendiamo da sole.”
Source: Il corpo elettrico: Il desiderio nel femminismo che verrà
“Caro patriarcato, le colpe che ci attribuisci non sono del nostro corpo. Hai sbagliato tutto. Non siamo arrabbiate perché abbiamo "le nostre cose", perché siamo isteriche, o perché non scopiamo abbastanza. Non sono gli "istinti misteriosi" a guidarci, né i nostri ormoni.
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Siamo arrabbiate perché le nostre vite traboccano di desiderio, un desiderio che viene costantemente represso. Così cerchiamo spazi, occasioni, una voce per esprimerlo. Caro patriarcato, ci dici in continuazione che dovremmo essere contente di come stanno le cose, che noi stiamo esagerando. Ci sono le quote rosa, i sussidi di maternità, le leggi di tutela. Ma questo non ci basta: "Vogliamo il pane, ma anche le rose". E non le chiediamo a te, ce le prendiamo da sole.”
Source: Il corpo elettrico: Il desiderio nel femminismo che verrà
“Caro's right. She should be scared. Everything's out of her hands now. All the things coming Ava's way they won't be able to control, things she won't always ask for because she's a girl. She doesn't even know how hard it's going to be yet, but she will, because all girls find out. And I know it's going to be hard for Ava in ways I've never had to or will ever have to experience and I want to apologize to her now, before she finds out, like I wish someone had to me. Because maybe it would be better if we all got apologized to first. Maybe it would hurt less, expecting to be hurt.”
Source: All the Rage
“Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.”
“Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can. when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the colour and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favour of dirt.”
“Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt.”
“Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.”
“Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.”
“Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie,' is as funny as it gets.”
“Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They are a reminder that we're all vulnerable little vessels filled by the people who can break us.”
“Carol Hipkins, a beacon of creativity, has always danced to the rhythm of her own artistic passions. With a background in hairstyling that spans decades, she has mastered the art of transforming hair into works of art.”