List of Topics starting with [C]

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

Actually, before creating a family, it is necessary for a person to be already happy

Whether you are rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, young or old, cancer knows no boundaries.

The enemy of execution is complexity.

My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That ...

It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the heart of the ...

Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once ...

What is your preference?" She felt nearly sick asking this question."My preference is to pack you in my suitcase,but those TSA people are so picky,and ...

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

A harvester ant never quits and she never, ever gives up.

How are you feeling?""Coffee.

The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you, so you don't ...

You gotta love the cops. They start the night ready to shoot someone's eyes off and at the same time ready to carry a child ...

About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated ...

She can't wear that dress! It's indecent. Her ass is hangin' out." ... "Son, take my advice, you gotta get this girl in hand. You ...

Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.

You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A ...

I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the ...

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

Money isn't the only measure of making a house a home.

Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness the ruler of movement. (Mueller, op. cit., p. 69.)

The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet.

Sometimes the spirit of a man isn't strong enough to survive the ghosts of his past

Of all the old festivals, however, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling ...

Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages.

At my school, they have an ice cream special sometimes, and they have this ice cream sandwich, except the sandwich part is like an Oreo ...

My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people ...

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

Mostly you love them and you cherish their milestones but occasionally you do want to tape them to a chair. That would be child abuse, ...

Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go ...

I think, it's so difficult to create a buzz anywhere, whether it be online, the streets, radio, anywhere, that if you are able to create ...

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only ...

Ambassador Winters, allow me to introduce my aunt Abby and her ... boyfriend.' Townsed tensed. Abby glared. And Rebecca Baxter looked like she was going ...

I'm a leukemia survivor, and I recall during my darkest days in the hospital when my friends would come to see me, especially the male ...

There is no value-judgment more important to a manno factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivationthan the estimate he passes on himself.

He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face

I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the ...

My heart is filled with endless praise.

That spring, Amelia takes Maya to the drugstore and lets her choose any polish color she likes. "How do you pick?" Maya says. "Sometimes I ...

I strongly believe that success is directly proprotional to one's ability to be simple and comfortable. In fact, simplicity and comfort have a multiplication effect, ...

Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.

Frank went out for baseball and while he wasn't very good, it wasn't a total loss. The coach used him as a pattern to drawn ...

I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.

You should make photographs with your heart, mind, eye & soul. The capture device is simply there to allow you to transfer your vision to ...

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily ...

I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets ...

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him ...

It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking ...

The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal ...

It's always so nerve-wracking being up there on stage. It's even harder playing in your hometown - and I have a couple of home towns ...

Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. 'You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. ...

The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the ...

Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more ...

I thought you weren't crazy anymore." Winter grinned. "I never made any promises.

I always have parmigiano-reggiano, olive oil and pasta at home. When people get sick, they want chicken soup; I want spaghetti with parmesan cheese, olive ...

The effort flops like a just-caught fish inside her. A brief burst of possibility as the name is typed onto the screen, as she clicks ...

My mind wanders and I drift off into La-La Land. I dream about Thalassic City. About opportunity. And second chances. About actually living.

Are you happy?' she asked.'Honour... I've been happy since the moment I met you.

A whimsical choice, perhaps a dangerous choice, but a shadow should bear some resemblance to the shape that cast it.

Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands ...

I'm from here, born and raised, and I'm a criminal justice major.

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave ... walking the plank ...

What do you mean, You have No Dreams?The Truth is, you have No Courage.

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.

Your kids never really leave do they? They might live elsewhere, sometimes not even on the same continent, but Mum is always first port of ...

My boyfriend thinks it's crazy that I wear a different bikini every day on holiday.

By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it ...

He just danced, eating chips. Then he started bouncing up and down, bending at the knees. Classic baby style. I felt like turning to the ...

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and ...

The thing about 'Watchmen' that people should know is that when it came out there was absolutely nothing like it. Up until then, comics were ...

There's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a function of ignorant ...

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it's still the eyes we look at, isn't it? That's where ...

Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no two scars are ...

Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but ...

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense ...

The dark side is emotion, Bane. Anger, hate, love, lust. These are what make us strong, Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Your ...

You dress like that all the time. Like a man."My eyes widened. "I don't dress like a man," I said. "I dress practically. Because I ...

We must give each other the chance to change.

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels ...

Bashing the Religious Right has become an acceptable political sport.

We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now ... won't make no difference, will it? Everybody ...

Clarity clattered into my thoughts and brought about a satori, an enlightenment, if you will.

Crimes often come in pairs.

Thoughts by a graveside are too dark and deep to be sustained for any length of time. Sooner or later the hurt mind turns to ...

It's amazing how books change. The chapter you're working on today would not have been the same if you wrote it yesterday or tomorrow.

Am as clear as the stars that are my brothers. Still I must sleep. They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even ...

What I found in Kabul was a sisterhood unlike any I had seen before, marked by empathy, laughter, courage, curiosity about the world, and above ...

Hence [through No Child Left Behind] the state has been given power...to fire all teachers and principles. So here we have an unusual case in ...

I don't like to spend a lot of money on haircuts: I'll sometimes grow my hair and get an acting job and get them to ...

I looked and felt my head gradually grow cold. It was the sort of coldness you feel when you take too big a bite from ...

Because if suicide was the only option, you could at least choose your weapon.

Creating and maintaining healthy boundaries demonstrates respect for ourselves and others and builds trust in both our work and personal relationships.

Why should a woman cook? So her husband can say 'My wife makes a delicious cake' to some hooker?

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege ...