Cant Quotes

• Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hypocrisy, Twins, Twin Sister

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• What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don't let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Hate, Real, Hypocrite

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• Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Being Single, Thinking, Single Life

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• I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

  Alice Walker

  Heart, Trying, Literature

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• I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Believe, Past, Connections

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• What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

  PJ Harvey

  Eye, Media, Accepting

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• IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.

  David Mamet

  Drama, Writing, Character

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• I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.

  Amy Winehouse

  Mean, People, Rude

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• I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a "surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow." ... Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of empiric fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, Fire, Sheep

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.

  Gloria Steinem

  Superwoman, Super Woman, Ifs

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• I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe. I felt like a nickel.

  Nolan Ryan

  Home, Thinking, Cities

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• All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?

  Harriet Martineau

  Sex, Iron, Race

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.179

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• You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.

  Sophocles

  Men, Ideas

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• You cant be controlling in improv.

  Matt Walsh

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• You cant be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

  Tom Lehrer

  Offensive, Satirical

  "Tom Lehrer" by Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 24, 2000.

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• I cant immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

  TobyMac

  Gold, Records, Way

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• You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

  Cory Booker

  Spiritual, Transformation, Spiritual Transformation

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• Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

  Wale

  Talking, Common Sense, Fake

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• I love rings, but I cant wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife.

  Justin Tuck

  Mean, Years, Wife

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• People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.

  Tracy Kidder

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Crankiness is a human attribute that when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.

  Ursula Burns

  Doors, People, Way

  "Beyond the copy: Xerox CEO keeps focus on the business process". "Conversations from the Corner Office" with Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. May 18, 2011.

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• Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

  George Canning

  Horse, Men, Political

  House of Commons, 1801

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• I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.

  Randy Carlyle

  Giving Up, Hockey, Winning

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• But whats it all worth, cant take it when you under this earth
  Rich men died and tried, but none of it worked
  They just rob your grave, Id rather be alive and paid
  Before my numbers called, historys made
  Somell fall, but I rise, thug or die
  Makin choices, that determine my future under the sky
  To rob steal or kill, Im wondering why
  Its a dirty game, is any man worthy of fame?
  Much to success to ya, even if you wish me the opposite
  Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is.

  Nas

  Dirty, Fall, Thug

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• Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Writing, Long, May

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