All Quotes

Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
‐‐ Ralph Marston

Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a sounding board to share ideas, as well as a means to punish irresponsible corporate behaviors.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend.
‐‐ Anatoli Boukreev

Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.
‐‐ Pete Hegseth

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
‐‐ Albert J. Nock

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Concerning PDA: Anything that can be described as 'cute' is okay. Anything that can be described as 'mating' is not okay.
‐‐ Ryan Hansen

Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn't work for everybody. It's the lifestyle, it's the stamina, it's the love, it's the dedication, it's the commitment, it's all those words.
‐‐ Judith Jamison

Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.
‐‐ Jeffrey Tate

Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.
‐‐ Susanna Phillips

Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.
‐‐ Vanilla Ice

Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.
‐‐ Evelyn Glennie

'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.'
‐‐ Ben Elliot

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
‐‐ Jalal Talabani

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Concord, California was a great place to grow up.
‐‐ Dave Brubeck

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.
‐‐ Christian Lous Lange

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.
‐‐ James Laughlin

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.
‐‐ Philip Johnson

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Concussions are still kind of a mysterious thing.
‐‐ Sidney Crosby

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
‐‐ Swami Vivekananda

Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in.
‐‐ David Brudnoy

Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.
‐‐ Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
‐‐ Daniel Ortega

Conditions in Chinese factories are harsh. They're much harsher than they are in, for instance, the United States or any Western nation.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.
‐‐ Ryszard Kapuscinski

Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.
‐‐ Al Michaels

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
‐‐ Matthew Arnold

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
‐‐ Anton Seidl

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.
‐‐ Colin R. Davis

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.
‐‐ Carter Burwell

Conducting is a strange thing to teach.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

Conducting is a strange thing to teach. There are very few great conducting teachers, and most great conductors don't teach. Look at Valery Gergiev - what he does is not teachable. A lot of it is on-the-job training, what works and what doesn't work.
‐‐ Joshua Bell

Conducting is more difficult than playing a single instrument. You have to know the culture, to know the score, and to project what you want to hear. Some conductors are well prepared but cannot transmit their ideas to an orchestra, and others are good communicators but have nothing to transmit because they are not absorbed enough in the score.
‐‐ Pierre Boulez

Conductors are performers.
‐‐ Michael Tilson Thomas

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
‐‐ Igor Stravinsky

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.
‐‐ Michael Tippett

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.
‐‐ George Szell

Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.
‐‐ Harold Feinstein

Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
‐‐ Harold Feinstein

Conferences are really like parties, and an A-list party is one where A-list people are in attendance. You figure out who are the really important people to invite and get them to show up as speakers or as guests. Then everybody wants to be there. If you don't know who the important people are, you shouldn't be doing a conference.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

Confess and be hanged.
‐‐ Christopher Marlowe

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
‐‐ Josh Billings

Confession alone is not necessarily good for the soul.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

Confession has been my habitual homecoming since I was a child. It is a consolation and a joy, and such joy, our faith teaches us, is meant for everyone. It is our vocation to bring it to as many people as possible.
‐‐ Donald Wuerl