List of Topics starting with [C]

When something looks enough like something else that people watching don't know what it is they're looking at.

I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy. I was a bit of a goth with purple hair, and I was ...

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

I'm not saying he's stingy. But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. It's not that either. He's ...

The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an ...

They met middle-age together-a time when women are necessary to one another-and all the petty but grievous insults of greying hair, crowsfeet, and the loathed ...

The legacy of the Bush administration is a lack of positive action on energy and the environment and profligate and irresponsible spending with no commensurate ...

I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript ...

Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power ...

Once arrived in the City, he dispersed utterly and gratefully in it like a raindrop fallen into the sea.

When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possibility is that the past has become ...

We normally know we're getting older when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded; unless you're a cancer survivor! ...

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long ...

A statement of vision is the overarching purpose, the big dream, the visionary concept-something presently out of reach-so stated that it excites the imagination and ...

The severing of his limbs and subsequent cauterizing of the wounds was not the most pleasurable part, no. His mad grin stretched, it seemed, from ...

Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed.

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender.[Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in seCrimen habet, quanto ...

So many emotions cascaded through me.I was embarrassed. I was humiliated. I was confused. I was conflicted. I was enraptured. I was hurt. I was ...

The moral of the story couldn't be clearer: you already know if your partner is fucking around behind your back, you just need to decide ...

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! ... I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means ...

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me ... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ...

Face it: You're always just a breath away from a job in telemarketing.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.

Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not ...

The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and ...

You and your name-dropping. 'I knew Michael'. 'I knew Sammael'. 'The angel Gabriel did my hair'. It's like I'm with the Band with biblical figures.

I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so greatthere are temptations there which at home you are free frombeware ...

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

Most of us know that our heart is our center, not our head. But apologetics gets at the heart through the head. The head is ...

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage ...

Who's going to save rock 'n' roll? It's so silly. Remember like in '86 or '87 and synthesizers were going to take over the world? ...

LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. ...

Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. He ...

Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on "Christbait ...

Life can become a celebration if you know how to live without concern. Otherwise life becomes a long prolonged disease, an illness which culminates only ...

Dresden: of all German cities, Smiley's favourite. He had loved its architecture, its odd jumble of medieval and classical buildings, sometimes reminiscent of Oxford, its ...

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

My gift is my song

(to father) Aren't you glad that you've never had to buy vegeterian cookery books as the first small step on the road to getting inside ...

I never used needles, but I was into heroin, cocaine - those are the things I'll never touch again.

Something I can keep for myself." He

You're my heartbeat, Brady.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far ...

Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers have. If bad ...

That's what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures.

As your attorney I advise you to get the chiliburger. It's a hamburger with chili on it.

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can ...

I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going ...

Maybe love is a risk, but it's a risk I'm willing to take and as you said, it's not a choice. I never thought I ...

I can see that you're in need of an accomplice," Thorne said, straightening his jumpsuit. "And lucky for you, I happen to be a criminal ...

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

This life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much ...

Caratacus suffered the double indignity of being taken to Rome in chains and having an opera written about him by Elgar.

The Nick Boles text is kiboshed [Mike] Gove's chances. It undermined people's confidence in him. It made it look as if he's been conspiring all ...

Y'all get crimey crimey, grimy grimy. But those with a tiny hiney thay get whiny whiny

There are definitely some hos on this campus," she began. "And plenty more in this city. And the fact that you're so different from those ...

I wanted to learn about him so I could hate him more. I didn't expect his answer to make me want to forgive him. Cheating ...

One of the greatest blessings we can offer to the world is the power of a Christ-centered home where the gospel is taught, covenants are ...

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up ...

Replace the old memory with a potentially crappier new one? No thank you.

Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, ...

Just as political correctness finds its most avid supporters on today's university campuses, the intellectuals of earlier times generally went along with the religious establishment. ...

You keep a grip of my heels, Pole, and Scrubb would hold on to yours. The we'll all be comfortable.

I've recently discovered Cardiobar. It's in L.A. and it has Cardio Aerobics. It's all women with no shoes on, dancing to upbeat music. I'm just ...

People cannot change people. Only God can get inside a person's heart and cause him or her to want to change.

Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result ...

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

In the kitchen Valeria was making breakfast, his aunt never made breakfast even though Carlo insisted for years that a hotel hoping to cater to ...

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls ...

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different ...

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading ...

Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion) ... He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you ...

Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).[Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]

Safe. Right beside mine, right where it belongs. You're not lost, little bird, and you won't be.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over ...

You can't treat an illness with cosmetic surgery, and that's why it would be great if there were qualified therapists in plastic surgeons' offices, and ...

I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones ... and a ...

The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.

Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change ...

I am not a pessimist.Just a well informed optimist.

It is the link from the present to the past that gives us a spirit to address the future.

I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight. The dead travel fast, and by short cuts unknown to ordinary coolies. I laughed ...

Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact

I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to write a story ...

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist.

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less ...

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of ...

There's another option. You can consider the reader, not as a helpless victim or a passive consumer, but as an active, intelligent, worthy collaborator. A ...

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

Try this New Year's resolution: I won't check my phone, my tablet, or my computer until I've first read a chapter in my Bible.

O I never thought that joys would run away from boys,Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer joys;But alack I never ...

Peering at the crest, with its faded leopard couchant,

Bring your substance deep down to me, heavily, covering my eyes, let your existence cut across me, supposing that my heart is destroyed.