Categories Starting with “C”

“By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.”

— Bill Gates

“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”

— Winston Churchill

“The First World became a popular phrase in about the 1970s and '80s. The World Bank then began categorizing countries in different categories, advanced to the least developed.”

— Lee Kuan Yew

“I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.”

— Nelson Mandela

“A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don't have a lot of furniture in our house, so it's really simple. And we're trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don't want to get isolated to do that.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”

— Albert Camus

“Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.”

— Cicero

“The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

“He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.”

— Horace

“If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.”

— Tom Stoppard

“To create something you must be something.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.”

— Richard Dawkins

“This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to trading in your trusty pan for a diesel-powered sluice box.”

— Seth Shostak