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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually.
- Eileen Caddy

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
- Sara Caldwell

Agree, for the law is costly.
- William Camden

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
- Joseph Campbell

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion...
- Albert Camus (1913-1960)

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
- Albert Camus

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
- Albert Camus

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus

Without work all life goes rotten. --Albert Camus
- Albert Camus

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.- Albert Camus
- Albert Camus

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. --Albert Camus
- Albert Camus

Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.- Albert Camus
- Albert Camus

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.- Albert Camus
- Albert Camus

There is a difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide.
- Mortimer Caplan

Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone (1899-1947)

Fame is only good for one thing -- they will cash your check in a small town.
- Truman Capote (1924-1984)

We are what we believe we are.
- Benjamin N. Cardozo

Give me a man who sings at his work.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.
- Thomas Carlyle

Endurance is patience concentrated.
- Thomas Carlyle

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
- Thomas Carlyle

Give me a man who sings at his work.
- Thomas Carlyle

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
- Thomas Carlyle

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
- Thomas Carlyle

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
- Andrew Carnegie

And while the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
- Andrew Carnegie

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital.... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
- Andrew Carnegie

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
- Andrew Carnegie

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
- Dale Carnegie

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
- Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most do.
- Dale Carnegie

Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
- Dale Carnegie

All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. --Dale Carnegie
- Dale Carnegie

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most often makes for success. --Dale Carnegie
- Dale Carnegie

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride . . . the omnipotence of clear thinking . . . belief in the absolute power of logic.
- Alexis Carrel (1873-1944)

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
- Thomas N. Carruther

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
- Johnny Carson

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
- Johnny Carson

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world--the very nature of its life.
- Rachel Carson

We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams like cats to favorite armchairs.
- Brian Carter

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other wings.
- Hodding Carter

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
- James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
39th US President

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
- Lillian Carter

My husband doesn't munch words.
- Mary Carter

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
- Rosalynn Carter

Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.
- Wanda Carter

Take the time to come home to yourself everyday.
- Robin Casarjean

The key to change . . . is to let go of fear.
- Rosanne Cash

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
- Carlos Castenada

The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
- Lord David Cecil

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
- C. W. Ceran

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
- C. W. Ceram
if you can make anything in this crazy world make sense, then my friend, you ARE a genius

One man is no more than another if he does no more than another.
- Miguel de Cervantes

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
- Miguel de Cervantes

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.
- Miguel de Cervantes

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.
- Marc Chagall

One pilot dropped a bomb right down the smoke stack of the USS Arizona. It went five decks down into the boiler room and exploded like a volcano up the stack of the ship. But the most devastating bomb hit the forward magazine area and exploded with the intensity of one million pounds of TNT. Those who witnessed the Arizona said she veritably lifted out of the sea and then settled down to the bottom of the harbor. From the first bomb to her demise was a total of nine minutes.
- Captain Samuel David Chambers, CHC, USN
December 1991 on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Delivered to the National Conference on Ministry to the Armed Forces.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
- Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort

The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
- Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort

Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.
- Mitzi Chandler

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
- Coco Chanel

To behave with dignity is nothing less than to allow others freely to be themselves.
- Sol Chaneles

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
- E. H. Chapin

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814-1880)

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
- Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
- George Chapman

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
- George Chapman

The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.
- Jacques Chardonnes

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alaskan goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.
- Erwin Chargaff
Professor of Biological Chemistry, Columbia University Columbia Forum Summer 1969

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you've got.
- Alain (Emile August Chartier)

Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul.
- Alexander Chase

To remain young one must change.
- Alexander Chase

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.
- Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995)
Speech, Westbrook Junior College, 7 Jun 1953.

Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired; my heart is sick and sad.
- Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
From where the sun now stands I Will Fight No More Forever.

Man is what he believes.
- Anton Chekhov

I can trust my friends? These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
- Cher

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.
- Cher

I can trust my friends? These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
- Cher

A woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.
- Kim Chernin

Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.
- Henry Chester

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
- Lord Chesterfield

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
- G. K. Chesterton

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- G. K. Chesterton

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.
- G. K. Chesterton

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.
- G. K. Chesterton

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
- G. K. Chesterton

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness -- or so good as drink.
- G. K. Chesterton

The crime of loving is forgetting.
- Maurice Chevalier
never forget that you love someone...thats the worst pain imaginable... and even if you can't be with that person, and even if you try not to remember, do not forget how it felt to love and be loved

I just hate health food.
- Julia Child

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
- Lydia M. Child

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.
- Alice Childress (1920-1994)
A Candle in a Gale Wind, in Black Women Writers,ed. Mari Evans, 1984.

It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people.
- Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien

You know you have a small apartment when Rice Krispies echo.
- S. Rickly Christian

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
- Agatha Christie

. . . just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don't give a damn.
- Agatha Christie

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.--
- St. John Chrysostom

I wanted to be scared again . . . I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.
- Connie Chung

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning . . . I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.
- Connie Chung

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy.
- Jennie Jerome Churchill

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.
- Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (1874-1965)
speech to the House of Commons, May 13, 1940

When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

The action of Russia... is a riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma
- Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
HAHA....more proof that men suck! oki..well thats enough male bashing... seriously..it is a travesty that more people don't understand, or respect, honesty in this day and age

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

If you're going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent effort, I learned to like it
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.
- Winston Churchill

Without victory there is no survival!
- Winston Churchill

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.
- Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
as Kraj once told us--if at first you don't succeed, keep sucking until you do succeed...just keep trying, you'll get it right one of these days

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
- Cicero

Man is born to eat.
- Craig Clairborne

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.
- Tom Clancy
Debt of Honor.

If you have to write your ethical rules down, it's already too late
- Tom Clancy
as Jack Ryan, The Bear and the Dragon, 2000

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
- Kenneth Clark

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke

The covetous man is always poor.
- Claudian

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
- Henry Clay

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
- Bill Clinton

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
- Bill Clinton

...time for all Americans to ask what we can do -as individuals and as a nation - to turn more young people from the path of violence; how we can take responsibility, each and every one of us, for the future of our children.
- Bill Clinton

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
- Bill Clinton

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.
- Richard Clopton

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
- Ty Cobb

You never know what you can do till you try.
- William Cobbett

The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.
- Chris Cobbs

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.
- Richard Cobden (1804-1865)

Happiness is a stock that doubles in a year.
- Ira U. Cobleigh

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
- Sir Barnett Cocks

Tact: Ability to tell a man he's open-minded when he has a hole in his head.
- Jean Cocteau

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
- Felix Cohen

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
- Mark B. Cohen

You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything.
- Claudette Colbert (1903-1996)
The Palm Beach Story, 1942.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.
- Jean B. Colbert

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
- Colette

We only do well the things we like doing.
- Colette

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
- Colette

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
- Colette

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette