List of quotes by letter C page 13

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

"Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones."

By Chuck, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003

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"Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow."

By George Eliot, The Mill On The Floss, Ch 9

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"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
Expediency asks the question - is it political?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right."

By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion."

By Spike Milligan, (1918 - 2002)

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"Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults."

By Benjamin Franklin

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"cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of
compassion,
between supposed lovers,
between supposed brothers.
And I know the pieces fit."

By Maynard James Keenan, in the song "Schism", by Tool

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"Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day."

By William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3

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"Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without."

By Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded

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"Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised."

By Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31:30

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"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open."

By Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004

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"Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

By Helen Keller

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"Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month."

By Wernher Von Braun

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"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

By Dorothy Bernard

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"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work."

By Rita Mae Brown

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"Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue."

By Sir Francis Bacon

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"Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite."

By Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find."

By Peter Ustinov

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"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

By Peter Ustinov

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"Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of."