Quotes Ci-Cz "There is no grief that time does not lessen." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero "Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero "If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot." -- E.M. Cioran "To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die." -- Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them to the impossible." -- Arthur C. Clarke "Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." --Arthur C. Clarke "The events which transpired five thousand years ago; five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years from now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event." -- Dr. John Henrik Clarke "I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the prison system." -- Bill Clinton on the White House "Being President is a lot like running a cemetery. You've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening." -- Bill Clinton "It's tempting to think there are two gay Americas, one frightened and one fabulous, a merely gay America and a fully Queer America. An America where the gay bars darken their windows to hide ashamed patrons, and an America where straight people stand in line to get into gay clubs. An America where the June 26 Supreme Court decision legalizing sodomy had more than symbolic consequences, since gay sex was still a crime in 13 states. And an America where instead of arresting gays, the police help clear the streets every June for Pride parades, which of course include contingents of gay cops." -� John Cloud "Everything has a crack in it. That's how the light gets in." -- Leonard Cohen "The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own." -- Charles Caleb Colton "Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another." -- Marquis de Condorcet "My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger." -- Billy Connelly "All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind." -- Joseph Conrad "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." -- Rich Cook "The best way to get people to think out of the box is not to create the box in the first place." -- Martin Cooper "If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right." -- Bill Cosby "For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked." -- Bill Cosby "When they said to you at graduation, 'Follow your dream,' did anybody say you have to wake up first?" -- Bill Cosby "Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." -- Joseph Crossman "To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." -- e. e. cummings "It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." -- e. e. cummings Index