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| Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. | Cato The Elder | BC 234-149, Roman Statesman, Orator |
| It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion. | Catullus | BC 87-54, Roman Lyric Poet |
| What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water. | Catullus | BC 87-54, Roman Lyric Poet |
| Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations. | Cavett Robert | |
| When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew. | Cavett Robert | |
| Creation is a drug I can't do without. | Cecil B. De Mille | 1881-1959, American Film Producer and Director |
| What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with. | Cecil B. De Mille | 1881-1959, American Film Producer and Director |
| The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. | Cecil B. De Mille | 1881-1959, American Film Producer and Director |
| It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. | Cecil B. De Mille | 1881-1959, American Film Producer and Director |
| Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication. | Cecil B. De Mille | 1881-1959, American Film Producer and Director |
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| We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, we'd like to work but we're feeling too weak, we'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, we'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, we'd like to love, but we've lost the knack. | Cecil Day Lewis | |
| We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. | Cecil Day Lewis | |
| The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate. | Cecil F. Alexander | |
| The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it. | Cecil J. Sharpe | 1859-1924, British Collector of Folk Songs and Dances |
| The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the centre around which we subordinate all interest. | Cecil J. Sharpe | 1859-1924, British Collector of Folk Songs and Dances |
| It is better to be a has-been than a never-was. | Cecil Parkinson | 1932-, British Conservative Politician |
| In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. | Cecil Parkinson | 1932-, British Conservative Politician |
| So little done, so much to do. | Cecil Rhodes | 1853-1902, British Imperialist, Business Magnate |
| Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can. | Celine Dion | 1968-, French-Canadian Singer |
| Rest in peace. The Mistake shall not be repeated. | Cenotoph | |
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| Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man --the one he used to be. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| Love is the cheapest of religions. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
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| We don't remember days; we remember moments. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be! | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travellers may find repose. | Ceslaw Milosz | |
| I head a nation of a million presidents. | Chaim. Weizmann | 1874-1952, Jewish statesman and president of Israel |
| Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them. | Chaim. Weizmann | 1874-1952, Jewish statesman and president of Israel |
| An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. | Changing Times | American Business Magazine |
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| No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. | Channing Pollock | American Actor |
| Each generation produces its squad of ''moderns'' with peashooters to attack Gibraltar. | Channing Pollock | American Actor |
| A critic is a legless man who teaches running. | Channing Pollock | American Actor |
| No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things. | Channing Pollock | American Actor |
| Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments. | Channing Pollock | American Actor |
| The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. | Channing Pollock | American Actor |
| Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. | Channing Pollock | American Actor |
| Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof. | Chao Chang | |
| Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. | Charles 'Tremendous' Jones | American Motivational Speaker, Author |
| No one is a failure until they blame somebody else. | Charles 'Tremendous' Jones | American Motivational Speaker, Author |
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