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Children have more need of models than of critics.

Carolyn Coats

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Carolyn Heilbrun

1926-, American Author, Educator

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Carolyn Heilbrun

1926-, American Author, Educator

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

Carolyn Kizer

Actions lie louder than words.

Carolyn Wells

1870-1942, American Author

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Carolyn Wells

1870-1942, American Author

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Carrie Fisher

1956-, American Actress, Novelist

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

Carry Nation

1846-1911, American Temperance Agitator

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

Carson Mccullers

1917-1967, American Author

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Carson Mccullers

1917-1967, American Author

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

Carter Glass

1858-1946, American Senator, Representative, Newspaper Publisher

I'm a priest, not a priestess. ''Priestess'' implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world -- it's better than being invisible.

Carter Heyward

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

Cary Grant

1904-1986, British-born American Actor

I improve on misquotation.

Cary Grant

1904-1986, British-born American Actor

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Casey Kasem

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Casey Stengel

1889-1975, American Baseball Player and Manager

The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.

Casey Stengel

1889-1975, American Baseball Player and Manager

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

Casey Stengel

1889-1975, American Baseball Player and Manager

Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.

Casey Stengel

1889-1975, American Baseball Player and Manager

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

Casey Stengel

1889-1975, American Baseball Player and Manager

Most games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

1889-1975, American Baseball Player and Manager

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

Casey Stengel

1889-1975, American Baseball Player and Manager

It's easy to get the players; it's getting them to play together that's the tough part

Casey Stengel

1889-1975, American Baseball Player and Manager

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Caskie Stinnett

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Cass Daley

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Cassius Longinus

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are...

Cat Stevens

It's better that it should make you sick than that you don't eat it at all.

Catalan Proverb

God forgives the sin of gluttony.

Catalan Proverb

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Catharine Esther Beecher

1800-1878, American Educator, Writer

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

Catharine Esther Beecher

1800-1878, American Educator, Writer

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

Catharine Esther Beecher

1800-1878, American Educator, Writer

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

Catherine Booth

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

1897-1973, American Author

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

1897-1973, American Author

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

1897-1973, American Author

I praise loudly, I blame softly.

Catherine II of Russia

1729-1796, Russian Empress

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.

Catherine Ponder

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Cathy Better

All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.

Cathy Guisewite

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder