A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.
‐‐ Tony Campolo
A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
‐‐ Carter Burwell
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.
‐‐ Erwin Schrodinger
A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.
‐‐ Kenneth Grahame
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad
A carrier with a venereal disease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will be susceptible to it.
‐‐ Louise L. Hay
A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.
‐‐ Mark Hamill
A case of can't do with, can't do without, that's why I married him again.
‐‐ Dionne Warwick
A cash advance on a credit card is one of the worst types of borrowing because the interest rate is typically 21 percent or more.
‐‐ Suze Orman
A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.
‐‐ Brunello Cucinelli
A casting director who'd cast me in 'Assassins' sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing '187.' Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me.
‐‐ Kelly Rowan
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
‐‐ Dean Inge
A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
‐‐ Pam Brown
A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.
‐‐ Caryl Chessman
A cat is never vulgar.
‐‐ Carl Van Vechten
A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski
A cat only has itself.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul
A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right?
‐‐ John Darnielle
A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
‐‐ Theophile Gautier
A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.
‐‐ Johnny Bench
A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
‐‐ Bill Dickey
A catechism is simply a tool for teaching the fundamentals of the faith. Unlike a creed or confession, a catechism uses questions and answers. Many Protestant confessional traditions, like Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Reformed, have used catechisms for centuries. Initially, most catechisms were intended for children.
‐‐ Kevin DeYoung
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
‐‐ Immanuel Kant
A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.
‐‐ Don DeLillo
A Catholic understanding of priesthood is so strongly rooted in the historic actions of Jesus and in all their antecedents in the place of sacrifice in life. And those things... they are rooted to the role of the man.
‐‐ Vincent Nichols
A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
‐‐ Arnold Bennett
A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or a dinosaur or something and gave it to the cavewoman. She put it around her neck - the first jewel.
‐‐ Kenneth Jay Lane
A CBS spokesman said the network's policy was tightened in September 2006 to forbid contributions to political campaigns. Previously, there was a bit of wiggle room.
‐‐ Bill Dedman
A CCR Headcleaner show will blow your mind.
‐‐ Ty Segall
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
‐‐ Fred Allen
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
‐‐ Lord Byron
A celebrity life can be very fast-paced, and it can be hard to find meaning in it. I believe that everyone is looking for the answers, but the answers are within ourselves.
‐‐ Miranda Kerr
A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
‐‐ Elle Macpherson
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
‐‐ Carl Sagan
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
‐‐ Jeremy Taylor
A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it's only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It can sing like the violin, you know, like a voice.
‐‐ Luka Sulic
A cello was there 400 years ago and will still be here in 400 years.
‐‐ Thomas Bangalter
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter
A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.
‐‐ Ma Huateng
A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
‐‐ Timothy Garton Ash
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
‐‐ James Buchan
A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it was reminiscent of Earth, Mars was assumed to be chock-a-block with animate beings, and its putative inhabitants got a lot of column inches and screen time.
‐‐ Seth Shostak
A century before the concept took hold in America, pirate ships were democracies. Most captains were elected by crew and could be voted out anytime.
‐‐ Robert Kurson
A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.
‐‐ Todd Gitlin
A CEO needs to build their own team.
‐‐ Ross Levinsohn
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
‐‐ Isaac Hayes
A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.
‐‐ Lindsay Duncan
A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin