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Quotes
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I praise loudly; I blame softly.
Catherine the Second (1729-1796) Russian Empress
"When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping."
Maria Callas, US opera singer
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."
Calvin (from Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes)
"Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?"
Calvin (from Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes)
"The trouble with referees is that they just don't care which side wins."
Tom Canterbury
"Reputation is a bubble which a man bursts when he tries to blow it for himself."
Emma Carleton, American journalist (1850-1925).
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."
Andrew Carnegie, businessman, philanthropist
"Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place."
Johnny Carson
"Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill."
Johnny Carson
You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called "life." Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum. There really is no way to avoid the lessons you are presented with, nor is there any chance that you will be able to skirt around the learning process.
Cherie Carter-Scott "Chicken Soup for the Soul"
"Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom."
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist and historian
"And while the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department."
Andrew Carnegie
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) US teacher, writer
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most do."
Dale Carnegie
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
Dale Carnegie
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
Sound familiar? Just like people today? It's from J. D. Salinger's book "Catcher in the Rye," which written in 1950. The words are spoken by narrator Holden Caulfield.
"Men pass away but their deeds abide."
Augustin-Louis Cauchy,
"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers -- and never succeeding."
Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter and graphic artist
"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."
Charlie Chaplin
"We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alaskan goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers."
Erwin Chargaff Professor of Biological Chemistry, Columbia University Columbia Forum Summer 1969
"The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing-and then they marry him."
Cher
He uses statistics as a drunkard uses a lamppost, for support, not for illumination.
G. K. Chesterton
"In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is always as bad as the thief."
Lord Chesterfield English author and statesman (1694-1773)
"It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means."
Lydia Maria Child American author (1802-1880)
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
"Every game ever invented by mankind is a way of making things hard for the fun of it."
John Anthony Ciardi, American poet, critic
"To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless."
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC-3BC) Roman statesman, scholar, orator
"A man who has to be convinced before he acts is not a man of action... You must act as you breathe."
Georges Clemenceau, French statesman, journalist, and formulator (with the United States and Britain) of the Treaty of Versailles
"Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that."
Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America."
William J. Clinton
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.
"He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool."
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) Writer, Author
"Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win."
Nadia Comaneci
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.
TALENT will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
GENIUS will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
EDUCATION will not; the world is full of educated failure.
Keep Believing. Keep Trying.
PERSISTENCE and DETERMINATION alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence... the only true measure of civilization."
Calvin Coolidge
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Calvin Coolidge
"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night."
Marie Corelli (Queen Victoria's favorite novelist )
"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear."
Alan Coren
"I am not the boss of my house. I don't know when I lost it. I don't know if I ever had it. But I have seen the boss's job and I do not want it."
Bill Cosby
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
"There's no labor a man can do that's undignified - if he does it right."
Bill Cosby
"Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at."
Noel Coward
"It is a good day to die! Strong hearts to the front, weak hearts to the rear!"
Crazy Horse, battle of the Little Big Horn
"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos."
David Cronenberg Canadian film maker
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e.e.cummings 1894-1962; US artist, writer & poet, best known for his modern poetry
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
e.e.cummings
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
Marie Curie
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist
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