Cs Quotes

#1. I wasn't the guy who got straight As. I got As and Bs and a couple Cs.

Harry Shum Jr.

#2. I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And they cried out in a great voice: "He made us." CS Lewis

Philip Zaleski

#3. Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.

Martha Beck

#4. I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school. I was the type to get good grades; I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.

Big Sean

#5. Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs).

Dmitri Mendeleev

#6. My selection process is based on "three Cs": first character, then competence, and finally chemistry with me and with the rest of the team. Character. Competence. Chemistry.

Bill Hybels

#7. Anyone who, for 25 years, has built a career on such tenuous foundations as a high-pitched giggle, a raspberry and a sprinkling of top 'Cs' needs all the friends he can get.

Harry Secombe

#8. ... [T]he letters of the alphabet (two Cs, a large D; the combination of Y, S, and L) belong on an ophthalmologist's chart. For the Parisienne, luxury should never be spelled out.

Anne Berest

#9. The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#10. I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

Charles Stross

#11. Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.

Byron Nelson

#12. Life is not a transcript. This isn't a test you can ace or fail. You can get Cs and Ds and still be okay.

Robin Friedman

#13. When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.

Bob Toski

#14. CS Lewis's humor supported his exposition but never dominated or diminished it.

Greg Cootsona

#15. The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

Walt Disney

#16. Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream.

John Gokongwei

#17. He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

John Piper

#18. I wondered for a second why I cared so much, but I knew I did. I wanted to be more like the Upper-Cs. Not snobby or mean, but just a bit more. It was hard to explain, I just liked the thought of being dolled up and having a few nice things.

Y.A. Marks

#19. Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves, or the sun moves and the earth is at rest, would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS

Albert Einstein

#20. I always say my age is connected with three Cs. In here, cuore, which means the heart. Up here, cervello, which is the brain. And, of course, down here: the coglioni. I no feel my age, I tell you.

Dino De Laurentiis

#21. CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers.

Chris Stein

#22. The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.

Walt Disney

#23. All images and sensations, if idolatrously mistaken for Joy itself, soon honestly confessed themselves inadequate. All said, in a last resort, "It is not high. I am only a reminder. Look! Look! What do I remind you of?" CS Lewis

Philip Zaleski

#24. I'm not looking to fail you. I don't teach with the hope everyone will play games on their phone during lectures and then skate by with Cs." "If you did, you'd probably be much happier." "I'm going to ignore that.

Dahlia Adler

#25. His tastes were essentially for what had magnitude and a suggestion of myth: the heroic and the romantic never failed to excite his imagination

Jocelyn Gibb

#26. Statistics say that when somebody tells you they love you, that person instantly becomes more likely to kill you than anyone else.

CS Dewildt

#27. [Lewis had a] determined impersonality towards all except his very close friends.

Jocelyn Gibb

#28. What will has caused, will must be brought to correct.

Jocelyn Gibb

#29. He had little sympathy...for Mirabel, and little for what I have called the New Sensibility of the early 'twenties, for its flat bleakness, its lawless versification, its unheroic tone, its unintelligible images, its 'modernity' in short.

Jocelyn Gibb

#30. When under suffering we see good men go to pieces we do not witness the failure of a moral discipline to take effect; we witness the advance of death where death comes by inches.

Jocelyn Gibb

#31. No one knew better than he how an understanding of poetry depends on an understanding of the poet's universe.

Jocelyn Gibb

#32. He was never quite at home in what we may call our post-positivist era

Jocelyn Gibb

#33. Man, to Lewis, is an immortal subject; pains are his moral remedies, salutary disciplines, willing sacrifices, playing their part in a drama of interchange between God and him.

Jocelyn Gibb

#34. life-giving generosity was another depth in Lewis's nature that was part of his greatness

Jocelyn Gibb

#35. It is one thing to understand the doctrine, and quite another to be masters of the controversy.' Lewis's ambition was of course to know the doctrine and to be master of the controversy.

Jocelyn Gibb

#36. Like Johnson, Lewis was more impressive in his conversation than in his poetry, and more impressive in his prose - particularly in his learned prose - than in his conversation.

Jocelyn Gibb

#37. His Christianity, so important to him personally, was also important professionally, for it enabled him to enter into fuller imaginative sympathy with the Middle Ages and Renaissance...and give spiritual substance to his life's work in those fields, so penetrated by Christian thought.

Jocelyn Gibb

#38. Fine scholar though he was, he was an even better teacher; and it may truly be said of him...that in turning men's minds to the Middle Ages he 'stimulated their mental thirst...silently indoctrinating them with nobler ideas, which might afterwards be appealed to as first principles'.

Jocelyn Gibb

#39. It delighted him that he could find no use of the word modern in Shakespeare that did not carry its load of contempt.

Jocelyn Gibb

#40. a favourite couplet of Dunbar's sums up his view of the whole duty and delight of Man:

Man, please thy Maker and be merry
And give not for this world a cherry.

Jocelyn Gibb

#41. Is romantic yearning an appetite for [H]eaven, or is it the ultimate refinement of covetousness?

Jocelyn Gibb

#42. Muddled minds read him, and found themselves moving with delight in a world of clarity.

Jocelyn Gibb

#43. The gift of phrase was instantaneous to him in him, and that must partly account for his huge output; but there was a plentitude of mind as well as a swiftness of phrase to help him; he never put a nib wrong.

Jocelyn Gibb

#44. I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.

C.S. Lewis

#45. His sentences are in homely English, and yet there is something Roman in the easy handling of clauses, and something Greek in their ascent from analogy to idea.

Jocelyn Gibb

#46. His conversion to Christianity seems to have come about largely by thinking...It did not come by sudden intuition, or overwhelming vision, or even by the more usual path of conviction of sin calling for repentance and atonement.

Jocelyn Gibb

#47. Lewis said sadly to me, 'When I at last realized that I was not, after all, going to be a great man...' I think he meant 'a great poet.

Jocelyn Gibb

#48. You. You're home now.

CS James

#49. What a pity it is that by such superfluous unrealities he should furnish the public with excuses to evade the overwhelming realism of his moral theology!

Jocelyn Gibb

#50. We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche.

C.S. Lewis

#51. Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared.

C.S. Lewis

#52. he almost never spoke about himself, in my hearing at least: though once, shortly after his marriage, when he brought his wife to lunch with me, he said...looking at her across the grassy quadrangle, 'I never expected to have, in my sixties, the happiness that passed me by in my twenties.

Jocelyn Gibb

#53. Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way

Ricky Maye

#54. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

C.S. Lewis