List of Topics starting with [C]

He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a ...

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.

A man driving a wagonload of children in a cage doesn't have to state his business. A farmer whose flesh lies sunken around his bones, ...

As we tune our ears to the kind of preaching that makes the primary point of the sermon the primary point of a particular passage ...

In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must not just sit ...

Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and ...

A release on September 16 quoted the claim of the assistant secretary for labor at OSHA that tests show 'it is safe for New Yorkers ...

She'd always had a short fuse but lately she was positively electric and could burst into flame anywhere, anytime ... When she was out of ...

And you'd be left there like a fucking dumpling. You'd be standing there. A fucking dumpling man I'm telling ye.

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

I love Clinique. Their moisturizer is amazing. My skin tends to be really oily, but then at times I'm dry, and that's the perfect amount ...

I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I ...

Another door swung open, and another guard appeared, this time with Gabrielle, who wore a black catsuit and rappelling harness.

Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through ...

Yes, the woman." Cunco took a deep breath. "Women like her don't come along that often, you know. Maybe only every two hundred years. She ...

Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal ...

You can't make silly people stay away from you; all you can do is staying away from them.

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year ...

I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for ...

If you really want to get rid of the problems in the NFL, put Obama in charge of it: in a few months it will ...

Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she ...

It requires courage to make good choices, even when others around us choose differently. As we make righteous choices day by day in little things, ...

Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs ...

Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our ...

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say ...

Are you quick to listen? Listening is an expression of humility and genuine concern for others. ... .If we want to truly know and understand ...

Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.

The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, ...

Men have made the world. And they've made a brilliant job of it. I love men. You know, men, you built Paris and you invented ...

I owe a lot to this club and the supporters who were always there for me. They supported me even when I was suspended. (on ...

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North ...

Two sexy cowboys and one curvy female. Read this book to watch a love affair develop. - Ashlynn Tate

VICOMTE DE NANJAC. And you are younger and more Cbeautiful than ever. How do you manage it?MRS. CHEVELEY. By making it a rule only to ...

Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create objects ...

The dead dog had come more than a hundred miles to find its master.[Mademoiselle Cocotte]

At the witching hour, the city was totally silent. Only the wind of portent blew through the gathered council of whispering brick chimneys on the ...

The body consists of three parts: the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain. The borax contains the heart and ...

If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you ...

It must have been perfectly dreadful to see a woman every day for five years, and not give her a pie, when you felt sure ...

I rather be thin dog running free than a fat one chained

What I really admire are people like my daughter, Victoria, who don't give up, who have daily medical challenges and medical conditions. They go on ...

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

I've always loved three-sided patios. Courtyard plans are very common, but it's rare that it has one side open.

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

I'm sorry about today.""Do you want to talk about it?""I was bored and lonely.""Some would call that the human condition.

The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're good at their ...

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

Whenever she imagined her child, grown up without interference from a judgemental world, she imagined its male and female halves as complementing each other, and ...

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

What is a logical mind? ... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn't sort of enter into our economic system because it's ...

The Fatal Cache to be release in the next few weeks.

It's hard [arriving just before the game], but it's more mental than anything. I think I prepared myself as I was coming over mentally, to ...

I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, ...

The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you ...

Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody ...

As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, ...

Reputation never has very much to do with reality.

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different ...

Love is neither a conditional business nor an ever-fixed mark arrangement. People always know somewhere inside them if they are not loved. No gestures, talk, ...

By talking others out of their dreams, critical people excuse themselves for staying in their comfort zones.

Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market ...

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that ...

When you give in to aversion and anger, it's as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your ...

The Lord Buddha was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of His teaching in one verse. He replied: Cease to do ...

It always amazed Vimes how Nobby got along with practically everyone. It must, he'd decided, have something to do with the common denominator. In the ...

I'm not going to end up in some heap of crushed dreams.

Commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, ...

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - ...

Having spent many years working in New York's Chinatown restaurants early in my career, I have the utmost respect for the history and connection New ...

What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough ... IF you understand God's grace

Her mother would be appalled, but she wouldn't say anything. She would just telegraph her distress with tightened lips and raised brows. She was good ...

I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.

I nearly tripped over Stieglitz, my dog, a forty-pound black-and-white keeshond (pronounced caze-hawnd) furball. He lunged at me with unbridled glee because the mere sight ...

If I could do anything, I would go to the middle of our planet Earth and seek uranium, rubies and gold. I'd look for unspoiled ...

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.

We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions.

All women bring something different to the table and we have to appreciate them all.

I have a wide circle of friends, wide enough to keep them away from me.

I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned about depression and how to combat ...

I like complicated women. I like women with strength and contradictions ...

I don't wish to not be a woman, but I'd certainly like to be a woman whose sense of purpose comes from within.

In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.

Nana glanced at Ben. I think your mom has catepillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.

I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. ...

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards ... It's a magpie Christmas market.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That ...

A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.

He's a good old sort. If only he weren't plumb crazy!

You are not a lost cause. You are a hawk who has had her wings clipped for so long that she had forgotten to fly. ...

The good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths ...

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. ...

The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that ...