C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Cat's have nine lives, but sage's have a thousand.”
“Cat's heated gaze meets mine, and she smiles. Another piece of my heart is hers.”
Source: My Not So Super Sweet Life
“Cat's passion for atmospheric architecture was only just second to her passion for Henry.”
Source: Northanger abbey
“Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'”
Source: Animal Stories
“Cat stands at the fridge,
Cries loudly for milk.
But I've filled her bowl.
Wild cat, I say, Sister,
Look, you have milk.
I clink my fingernail
Against the rim. Milk.
With down and liver,
A word I know she hears.
Her sad miaow. She runs
To me. She dips
In her whiskers but
Doesn't drink. As sometimes
I want the light on
When it is on. Or when
I saw the woman walking
toward my house and
I thought there's Frances.
Then looked in the car mirror
To be sure. She stalks
The room. She wants. Milk
Beyond milk. World beyond
This one, she cries.”
“Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.”
“Cat tongues are awesome." --Nellie Gomez, The 39 Clues, Beyond The Grave”
“Cat will have you staked in five seconds flat.”
“Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.”
“Cat's eyes seem a bridge to a world beyond the one we know.”
“Cat, hmmm? From where I sit you look more like a Kitten." My head jerked around and I shot him an annoyed look. Oh, I was going to enjoy this, all right. "It's Cat," I repeated firmly. "Cat Raven." "Whatever you say, Kitten Tweedy.”
Source: Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel
“Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit." ~ Georgia "The Friday Night Knitting Club”
“Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. I’ve checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that?”
“Cat-Ideas and Mouse-Ideas. We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble-no matter how often we drive them off. The best way to keep them down is to have a few good strong cat-ideas which will embrace them and ensure their not reappearing till they do so in another shape.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.”
“Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.”
Source: Terror by Night: Classic Ghost and Horror Stories
“Catalan language is one of the most complete and perfect expressions that I know from the point of view regarding language, I not only read it since many years ago, but I understand it. Moreover, I speak it intimately too.”
“Catalina de Alejandría quería un anillo en su espada
Pero ninguna espada en su anillo.”
Source: Crucifijo en la Saatchi Gallery
“Catalina deduce que es cosa de la época, de la literatura antigua, el que a una mujer no se la dotara de sentimientos...al menos que fueran divinidades, porque el resto no parecía tener jamás iniciativas ni anhelos. Tampoco ella tiene deseos sexuales hacia nadie, aunque cree que, como los chicos, debería tenerlos. Se pregunta si de algún modo está castrada o es solo una forma de sobrevivir.”
Source: La educación física
“Catalonia and Spain also owe me a couple of million Euros.
I believe Spain owes me a Spanish Passport as well. To be fair.
We'll assess how effectively Israel, Portugal, Hungary, the Benelux countries, Argentina, and Switzerland enforce their own laws against criminals and international crime organizations. We'll also evaluate the level of apology from each country. If I am open to reaching a settlement or making a deal.
I didn't find a new job, so I had to leave. After the circus court of Catalonia disclosed our address, where I had been keeping my young girlfriend safe, I endured being browbeaten and blackmailed by the mafia for 1.5 years.”
Source: BARCELONA MARIJUANA MAFIA
“Catania rimane ferma negli anni, non sposta di una linea. I chioschi liberty della Villa Bellini come nei giardini di Parigi verso il 1900, i viali, i platani, la fontanina di Cerere, quella del bambino che versa acqua da una brocca umida e gocciolante di licheni, la statua di Mario Rapisardi, quella di Di Bartolo, quella di Tempio, la colonnina vuota dalla quale fu sottratto nottetempo il mezzobusto in bronzo dell’on. Milana.”
Source: Diario Siciliano
“Catania rimane ferma negli anni, non sposta di una linea. I chioschi liberty della Villa Bellini come nei giardini di Parigi verso il 1900, i viali, i platani, la fontanina di Cerere, quella del bambino che versa acqua da una brocca umida e gocciolante di licheni, la statua di Mario Rapisardi, quella di Di Bartolo, quella di Tempio, la colonnina vuota dalla quale fu sottratto nottetempo il mezzobusto in bronzo dell’on Milana.
Gli anni lontani, angosciosi del liceo sono rimasti sospesi in mezzo a questi alberi, su queste panchine di pietra col gioco della dama disegnato a matita, su questo ponte di lamiere di ferro che trema ad ogni passo. C’è ancora in giro in questi viali il panico assillante delle giornate in cui marinavo la scuola e temevo di incontrare mio padre.
I balconi della via Garibaldi hanno gli stessi vasi, gli stessi fili di ferro, le stesse brocche d’acqua di trenta anni fa. E gli odori sotto l’arco della Porta Uzeda mi ritornano in gola identici; odore di mare stagnante e di pesce secco, di catrame, di orina di cavallo sulle lastre di lava calde di sole, di bucce di fichidindia accatastate sotto gli archi della marina.
Anni lontani di sgomento infantile, di voglia di fuggire, di morire anche pur di non andare a scuola.”
Source: Diario Siciliano
“Catapult into your highest version by doing the things that fuels you with a swanky fire. Yes, even when it doesn't make sense to the world.”
“Catapultata in un paese straniero, a lungo considerato nemico, obbediente a regole a lei incomprensibili se prima non le venivano spiegate, mia nonna si era riservata uno spazio che apparteneva a lei sola - un'Isola dei Morti che lei visitava quotidianamente. Non c'era giorno in cui lei, senza farne parola, non raggiungesse con il pensiero tutti coloro che aveva perduto.”
Source: La Princesse et le Pêcheur
“Catapulting change requires meticulous leadership that is mindful of all those elements that are seemingly trivial to most but produce positive outcomes that hit us as hard as tsunamis. It’s the sort of leadership that empowers and engages people to move deep with themselves, and yet it mobilizes them with others in a manner that is coordinated, collaborative, and cohesive. These are fostered because leaders have the innate ability to make you feel that you are working “with” them not “for” them in such a way that motivates you to spring off the mattress each morning to make meaningful contributions because you feel valued, respected, empowered, and connected to an overarching goal.”
Source: Catapulting Change: Mindful Leadership To Launch Organizations and People
“Cataracts cause blindness, so you'll want to know about this condition If you have Cataracts, know how to treat it by booking an eye test with the best Optometrist in Sydney.”
“Catarina hooked her hand around Magnus’s elbow and hauled him away, like a schoolteacher with a misbehaving student. They entered a narrow alcove around the corner, where the music and noise of the party was muffled. She rounded on him.
“I recently treated Tessa for wounds she said were inflicted on her by members of a demon-worshipping cult,” Catarina said. “She told me you were, and I quote, ‘handling’ the cult. What’s going on? Explain.”
Magnus made a face. “I may have had a hand in founding it.”
“How much of a hand?”
“Well, both.”
Catarina bristled. “I specifically told you not to do that!”
“You did?” Magnus said. A bubble of hope grew within him. “You remember what happened?”
She gave him a look of distress. “You don’t?”
“Someone took all my memories around the subject of this cult,” said Magnus. “I don’t know who, or why.”
He sounded more desperate than he would’ve liked, more desperate than he wanted to be. His old friend’s face was full of sympathy.
“I don’t know anything about it,” she said. “I met up with you and Ragnor for a brief vacation. You seemed troubled, but you were trying to laugh it off, the way you always do. You and Ragnor said you had a brilliant idea to start a joke cult. I told you not to do it. That’s it.”
He, Catarina, and Ragnor had taken many trips together, over the centuries. One memorable trip had gotten Magnus banished from Peru. He had always enjoyed those adventures more than any others. Being with his friends almost felt like having a home.
He did not know if there would ever be another trip. Ragnor was dead, and Magnus might have done something terrible.
“Why didn’t you stop me?” he asked. “You usually stop me!”
“I had to take an orphan child across an ocean to save his life.”
“Right,” said Magnus. “That’s a good reason.”
Catarina shook her head. “I took my eyes off you for one second.”
She had worked in mundane hospitals in New York for decades. She saved orphans. She healed the sick. She’d always been the voice of reason in the trio that was Ragnor, Catarina, and Magnus.
“So I planned with Ragnor to start a joke cult, and I guess I did it. Now the joke cult is a real cult, and they have a new leader. It sounds like they’re mixed up with a Greater Demon.”
Even to Catarina, he wouldn’t say the name of his father.
“Sounds like the joke has gotten a little out of hand,” Catarina said dryly.
“Sounds like I’m the punch line.”
Source: The Red Scrolls of Magic
“Catarina was the blue-tinted voice of reason and minor rebellion in the hallowed halls of the Academy.”
“Catastrophe alone sparks man’s salvation. I don’t mean in the religious sense, although I guess it is appropriate there, too, because believers agree that salvation comes only after death. It is part of the human near-tragedy that we learn more from loss than from gain. Gain binds us until we stumble and fall into that black pit then we find the spirit of understanding and truth. And if we fall far enough and still persist, we find our salvation.”
Source: Blythe
“Catastrophe and creation are twins.”
Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential
“Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.”
Source: The Magic Will: Stories & Essays
“Catastrophe fortifies integrity.”
Source: Abigitano: El Divino Refugiado
“Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.”
Source: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
“Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.”
Source: Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
“Catastrophe reveals character.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it gives no more than analogies, or metaphors, they do not realise that they are stating the proper aim of Catastrophe Theory, which is to classify all possible types of analogous situations.”
“Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!”
“Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.”
Source: Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure
“Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.”
Source: Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology
“Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.”
“Catastrophic damage from climate-driven extreme weather is now an annual reality. The cost of not dealing with it will be much greater than if we try to pre-empt some of those disaster cleanups by actually investing in the shift now.”
“Catastrophic events serve a higher purpose.”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“Catawamteak,” meaning “the great landing,” is what the Abenaki Indians called the early settlement that became Rockland, Maine. Thomaston and Rockland can be bypassed by Route 90, an eight-mile shortcut which I frequently used as a midshipman, but our bus stayed on the main road and stopped to let passengers on and off in both places. At one time Rockland was part of Thomaston, called East Thomaston, but the two towns have long since separated, having very little in common. In the beginning, Rockland developed quickly because of shipbuilding and limestone production. It was, and still is, an important fishing port. Lobsters are the main export and the five-day Maine Lobster Festival is celebrated here annually. The red, three-story brick buildings lining the main street of Rockland, give it the image of an old working town. I have always been impressed by the appearance of these small towns, because to me this is what I had expected Maine to look like.
When I first went through the center of Rockland on the bus, I was impressed by the obvious ties the community had with the sea. The fishing and lobster industry was evident by the number of commercial fishing and lobster boats. Rockland was, and still is, the commercial hub of the mid-coastal region of the state. The local radio station WRKD was an important source of local news and weather reports. This was also the radio station that opened each day’s broadcasting with Hal Lone Pine’s song, recorded on Toronto's Arc Records label: “There’s a winding lane on the Coast of Maine that is wound around my heart....”
The United States Coast Guard still maintains a base in Rockland, which is reassuring to the families of those who go fishing out on the open waters of Penobscot Bay and the Gulf of Maine. Rockland remains the home of the Farnsworth Art Museum, which has an art gallery displaying paintings by Andrew Wyeth, as well as other New England artists.
The Bay Point Hotel that was founded in 1889 had a compelling view of the breakwater and Penobscot Bay. The Victorian style hotel, later known as the Samoset Hotel, had seen better days by 1952 and was closed in 1969. On October 13, 1972, the four-story hotel caught fire in the dining area due to an undetermined cause. Fanned by 20-mile-an-hour north winds, the structure burned to the ground within an hour. However, five years later a new Samoset Resort was founded.”
“Catcallers offer a valuable service to the community, and I'm proud to say I donate my time and energy to such a charitable cause. If you need me I'll be whistling on the sidewalk.”
Source: Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast
“Catcalling is pretty much never going to work. Like anytime a guy's like, "Hey girl! Can we friends?" It's like, I don't know you. I'm just walking by right now, and that's weird. No relationship has ever started from a catcall.”
“Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain. Wherever I have gone, wherever I've been and gone, wherever I have gone... The blues are all the same.”
“Catch a customer with emotion and you will have a customer for a day; but, capture a customer with value and you will keep a customer for a lifetime. I truly believe in good, old-fashioned values when it comes to business. That is what timelessness is made of! At the end of the day, the question is, “Do you want to build a good hut for a day or do you want to build a good fortress for a lifetime?” Quality, value, understanding the needs of your clientele— that’s how you build a legacy. Connect with people, because you can never underestimate just how many people out there are yearning for any form of good interpersonal connection that they can find and when you can provide that as a brand name, you can allow the person behind your business to shine through. That’s how timelessness is created. It’s not created by luring people into a myth; it’s created by making connections, by remembering people’s names, by being genuinely interested in everybody.”
“Catch a dog in your favorite chair, and he slinks away abashed. The cat will pretend incomprehension; surely you must know it's her chair?”
Source: The Cat's Pajamas
“Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”
“Catch a throatful from the fire vocal
Ashing and molten glass like Eyjafjallajökull.”