List of Topics starting with [C]

Colonization took place in America and Australia, the two continents that, without a culture and a history of their own, had fallen into the hands ...

What if we both can't win?" "I've already told you what happens then." "What?" "I give you the plank, Karissa." It takes a moment for ...

If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it.""Caterpillar blood," I said.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

When we rise in the morning ... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by ...

The cardinal used to say, Cromewll will do in a week what will take another man a year, it is not worth your while to ...

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and ...

There's no Saints; everyone lies. Everybody betrays everybody sooner or later too. The quicker you get that through your head, the better."From "Hostages

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, ...

Your childhood, said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail ...

He who succeeds without books is in an inconsolable darkness, on a mountain without company, on a path without a crosier, in darkness without a ...

Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in denoting the object, ...

She lit fire to the bridges and forts she built all these years, and she walked into it smiling and tears rolling down her cheeks.

It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind of ...

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

You're the type of guy who always snaps at some point and becomes a mass murderer!

That is what is most special about achieving equality - the positive signal that it will send the world over to the next generation of ...

Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or ...

I will age for you, if it pleases you. I will match you, wrinkle for wrinkle, grey hair for grey hair, crease for crease, wrinkle ...

Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

He shook his head slowly from side to side, as though it were very heavy. I could almost hear the contents sloshing.

Intellectual capital includes everything an organization knows. That can be ideas, different kinds of knowledge, and innovations. The bottom line, though, is that it's knowledge ...

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the ...

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. ...

For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;

There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, ...

What he brought out was a wooden gag they put in someone's mouth before doing something drastic, like cutting off a leg.

If you blunder by accident into a secret it's like you've pushed open a door where you thought was just a wall. You can look ...

CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet ...

In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake ...

Perhaps it's a cultural problem: a capitalistic society that encourages people to see negotiations as a zero-sum game - my loss is your gain, my ...

What I think is critically important is that there are lots of studies on how prayer effects people that are ill, lots of studies, and ...

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

The fear of fat works ... because it's being manipulated in us to enforce class divisions, racisms, womyn-hatred. And we give it the room to ...

Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewing all the way down she back ... The ...

The thing I love watching most is the swirling cotton candy. The contraption for making it is like a flat-bottomed pan. One puts sugar in ...

I can tell you I've crunched the numbers time and time again; it is always more fun to have eight people with one beer than ...

The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: ...

(Devon) "Cam - you're killing me," she quavered, pressing her head back into the pillow and praying for patience. Her heart was pounding."I'm loving you," ...

Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.

People rich enough to redecorate every 10 months are certainly careless with antique furniture. I found four 1760 French side chairs, tapestry seats intact. Claiming ...

My friends used to tease me 'cause I'd wear a CamelBak while I was working so I wouldn't have to get up if I was ...

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LADY FRANCES CARFAX

I like TV on demand and Cheetos.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

We saw a cloudwall hung many miles to the east and hawks floating in the unforced motion that makes you think they've been up there, ...

No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if ...

Luck," Jeremy scoffed softly. "There's no luck.""Then what?""Your feet take you where you need to be."I thought about this. "My feet have taken me to ...

We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit ...

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure ...

I tried that too,' said Laurent. 'I don't like to think of myself as predictable. But apparently I cycle through all the normal responses. Shall ...

I can assure the Marquis de Chasteler that it is my unalterable determination never to set foot on any territory which acknowledges obedience to His ...

He picked the one Cinderella on earth who would smash the glass slipper and cut off a few toes to keep Prince Charming from finding ...

Everywhere else men are in movement, the world is in movement, and the past can only cause pain.

Say what you will about zombies and their hygeine issues,at least they kill you fast. College acceptance boards? They like to draw out the torment ...

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

You must pray.''No, Sister.' Ciro smiled weakly. 'I'm not a good Catholic.''Well, Ciro, you're a good man, and that's more important.

I'm really lucky! I'm just cognisant that I wanna move forward, and people will let me or not; who knows.

People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are the copy editors ...

These things must be done by the rules," said Czernberg. "Yeah," said Shadow. "But nobody tells me what they are. You keep talking about the ...

Her lungs felt thick and slow, her mind dissolved, she felt she could cling like a bat in the long swoon of the crannied, underword ...

Whether or not the U.S. government funds circumvention tools, or who exactly it funds and with what amount, it is clear that Internet users in ...

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know ...

He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back.

Rip Rig & Panic was a milestone for me, and I've always been really thankful that I did that when I was 16. It saved ...

You can't possibly be thinking of sending him home! He can barely walk." Meg's smile began to slip. Ambulance crews were queuing almost out the ...

The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that ...

Her diaper is soiled. A.J. has never changed a diaper in his life, though he is a modestly skilled gift wrapper. Back when Nic was ...

But you hardley even know him"she said."He could be a serial killer""I did have that thought.I checked the apartment out,but if his got an ice ...

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

Newt turned back to me, her eyes black as the sun slipped away. From the slump of broken castle, a rock fell. "We exist in ...

We all out our crazypants on one arm at a time.

When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance ... that ...

Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. You're here. It's ...

Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair ...

Jo dimaag ki dahi banaaye, uski lassi kardo, aur chill maro. (If someone makes curd of your brain then churn them to buttermilk and chill).

I have a merely ethical and moral relationship to collecting. Whereby I never collect things that I necessarily like. I collect things by young artists ...

For years, I'd never understood what it meant when people said they felt like laughing and crying at the same time, until now. (...) I ...

I don't go to the gym or practice yoga. And the closest thing I have to a nutritionist is the Carlsberg Beer Company. I just ...

The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - ...

There is no such thing as "false hope." Hope is not in itself a guarantee of good outcome or a cure. Hope is merely cognizing ...

In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the ...

I look like a hooker.""A slut," I corrected. "Hookers have pastier complexions.""The voice of experience, I'm sure.

Confidence is everything. From there, it's a small step to winning.

There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish ...

Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

That punt was higher than Marion Berry on a fact-finding tour of Cartagena.

I'm not a celebrity, I've kind of been under the radar, has kept it easier for me to maintain a career.

The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon ...

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your ...

Cullan was already inside her room, walking toward her. The sliding door was reduced to shards."I asked you nicely." Cullan said in a loud voice. ...

Wherefore saith the Lamb of God: I will be merciful unto the Gentiles, unto the visiting of the remnant of the house of Israel in ...

Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, ...