A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.
‐‐ Juan Goytisolo
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
‐‐ Plautus
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
‐‐ Joseph Addison
A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense.
‐‐ Eric Maskin
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
‐‐ Dorothy L. Sayers
A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.
‐‐ Kevin Rudd
A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner
A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.
‐‐ Chuck Berry
A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.
‐‐ Robert Atkins
A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.
‐‐ Leon Jouhaux
A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.
‐‐ David Lagercrantz
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
‐‐ Augustine Birrell
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
‐‐ Timothy West
A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.
‐‐ Peter Thiel
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
‐‐ Dick Cavett
A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.
‐‐ Maximilian Schell
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
‐‐ Truman Capote
A convert, if he converts through the Orthodox, he has the Jewish gene. If he doesn't convert through the Orthodox, he doesn't have the Jewish gene. As simple as that.
‐‐ Eli Yishai
A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity.
‐‐ James E. Faust
A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even liked his food. It's hard to spend hours perfecting a dish only to relinquish control. But chefs need to put aside their egos and trust the people serving the food.
‐‐ Daniel Humm
A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the meals have been eaten, and the experience is gone.
‐‐ Daniel Humm
A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.
‐‐ Grant Achatz
A cop by themselves on every corner is not going to make that much difference.
‐‐ Janet Reno
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
‐‐ Rebecca West
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
‐‐ Douglas Jerrold
A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all.
‐‐ Kevin Rudd
A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.
‐‐ Adrian Cronauer
A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.
‐‐ David Bohm
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
‐‐ Larry Ellison
A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
‐‐ Ben Stein
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
‐‐ James Joyce
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.
‐‐ Reza Aslan
A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco
A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.
‐‐ Christian Dior
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
‐‐ Pierre de Coubertin
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
‐‐ Daniel Webster
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
‐‐ Aristide Briand
A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.
‐‐ Glenn Beck
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
‐‐ Giuseppe Mazzini
A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.
‐‐ Tristram Stuart
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
‐‐ Mikhail Baryshnikov
A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.
‐‐ Jean-Pierre Raffarin
A country outside the euro zone cannot have a veto over countries in the euro zone.
‐‐ Francois Hollande
A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.
‐‐ James Inhofe
A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population, this growing capacity based on advancing technology and the institutional and ideological adjustments that it demands.
‐‐ Simon Kuznets
A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook.
‐‐ Marc Forne Molne
A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.
‐‐ Vinoba Bhave
A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
‐‐ Charles Kuralt