Cant Quotes - Page 13

• You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hurt, Russia, History

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• I cant pretend to be objective when it comes to service or sacrifice.

  Martha Raddatz

  Sacrifice, Objectives

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• You cant run a football game in Tiger Stadium without 1,500-1,600 people to help.

  Skip Bertman

  Football, Running, Games

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• The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

  E. M. Forster

  Liberty, Heritage, Care

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• There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the President has to make often affect the lives of tens of millions of people around the world, but that does not mean that they should take longer to make. Some men can make decisions and some cannot. Some men fret and delay under criticism. I used to have a saying that applies here, and I note that some people have picked it up, If you cant stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

  Harry S. Truman

  Mean, Men, People

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

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• Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Hypocrisy, Evil

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• The great Creator to revere
  Must sure become the creature;
  But still the preaching cant forbear,
  And ev'n the rigid feature:
  Yet ne'er with wits profane to range
  Be complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchange
  For deity offended.

  Robert Burns

  Atheist, Laughing, Deities

  'Epistle to a Young Friend' (1786) st. 9

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• There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Business, Cutting, Matter

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Kings, Virtue, Pretending

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• I cant summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tatis Play Time. You just have to see it.

  Rick Perlstein

  Play, Play Time, My Favorite

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• Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats cant grasp this simple fact.

  Pete Sessions

  Simple, Way, Facts

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• I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

  Andrew Forrest

  Culture, Looks, World

  "Andrew Forrest makes biggest single philanthropic donation in Australian history". "AM" with Caitlyn Gribbin, www.abc.net.au. October 15, 2013.

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• When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

  Edward P. Jones

  Mother, Jobs, Growing Up

  "The two dollars a day literary sensation" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2004.

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• The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

  Jonathan Swift

  Language, Corruption, Introducing

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1754). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory”, p.325

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• Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

  William Hazlitt

  Real, Hypocrisy, Feelings

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.44

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• Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Devil, Body

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.48

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• Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Parrots, Profession

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• Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Gentleman, World, Ifs

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• He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  College, Air, Smell

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• You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

  Mark Takano

  Thinking, World, Want

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• Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever preached. I can even do it without a sunset!

  Anne Ellis

  Sunset, Men, Giving

  Anne Ellis (1999). “The Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We cant do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

  Jennifer Pahlka

  Government, Needs

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• As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I cant help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so Im very excited when I notice that.

  Kate Bernheimer

  Reading, Play, Technique

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• We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

  Betty Buckley

  Heart, Stories, May

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• Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This is what I do for a living.

  Martin Sheen

  White, House, President

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