All Quotes

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.
‐‐ James Hillman

The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us.
‐‐ David Lagercrantz

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
‐‐ Harvey Cushing

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.
‐‐ Dick Thornburgh

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
‐‐ James Madison

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.
‐‐ Jane Fonda

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.
‐‐ Stan Brakhage

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
‐‐ Erich Fromm

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
‐‐ Mary Catherine Bateson

The capacity to influence radical groups can diminish significantly once they are viewed as indispensable coalition partners and are able to intimidate the electorate with the authority of the state behind them.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
‐‐ Margot Asquith

'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.
‐‐ James Frain

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
‐‐ Emil Cioran

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.
‐‐ Ella R. Bloor

The capitalist model, the developed model, the consumer model which comes from the North, which it has forced on the world, is falling apart on Earth, and there is no planet nearby that we can emigrate to.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.
‐‐ Clara Zetkin

The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!
‐‐ Peter Garrett

The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him.
‐‐ Billy Herman

The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded.
‐‐ Saul Alinsky

The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a stand, and it will twist itself or untwist, according as the air is moist or dry.
‐‐ Dorothea Dix

The captain thing was really an honor, and it was really flattering for me. It was really something that I didn't expect, and I would say that was the highlight of my career so far, being elected captain by my peers.
‐‐ Benjamin Watson

The captains of industry do not keep on working for the sake of making money, but for the love of completing a job successfully.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab

The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.
‐‐ Hamid Karzai

The capture, taming, training and keeping of eagles is highly ritualized. Most of the birds, which have a life span of about 40 years, are caught when very young - either snatched from a nest or trapped in a baited net.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.
‐‐ Tom Dempsey

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.
‐‐ Paul Michael Glaser

The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway.
‐‐ Fritz Todt

The car is the most regulated thing in the world. It's more complicated to make a car than it is to send a rocket to space.
‐‐ Henrik Fisker

The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.
‐‐ Fritz Todt

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
‐‐ Campbell Newman

The cardiac calls require medical intervention. So an ambulance for a cardiac call requires a doctor, a ward boy and medical equipment.
‐‐ Shaffi Mather

The Cardiff Half Marathon has already proved itself to be one of the biggest and best road races in the U.K., and when the best athletes in the world run on the same course, the times should be spectacular. But the real beauty of this event is that ordinary runners get the chance to line up on the same start line as the best athletes in the world.
‐‐ Lynn Davies

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
‐‐ Lord Byron

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
‐‐ Mao Zedong

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.
‐‐ Neil Diamond

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.
‐‐ Louis Sachar

The care and concern of one human being for another is a peculiar 'commodity.' It can't be stockpiled. It becomes degraded through trade. It isn't delivered by machines. Its quality rests entirely on the attention paid by one person to another. Even to speak of reducing the time involved is to misunderstand its value.
‐‐ Tim Jackson

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
‐‐ John Woolman

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.
‐‐ Dabney Coleman

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.
‐‐ Nick Ferguson