Can Do Quotes - Page 34

• Be sure to incorporate your pooch into your daily activities to make her feel like a true family member. You can do this by signing your dog's name - or her paw print - on birthday cards, by getting 'from our dog to your dog' holiday cards, or by including your dog when asked the number of family members in your household. These small, considerate actions will make you an ideal petowner.

  Joyce Jillson

  Dog, Holiday, Numbers

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• I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own.

  Sojourner Truth

  Writing, Men, Rights

  Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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• It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

  Thomas Sprat

  Men, Expectations, Praise

  Thomas Sprat (1667). “The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge”, p.46

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• In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Too Much, World

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• A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!

  Lucille Kallen

  Women, Long, Want

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• My God, I'm four hundred years old and the most I can do is look three hundred.

  Joan Crawford

  Years, Age, Three

  Roy Newquist, Joan Crawford (1980). “Conversations with Joan Crawford”

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• Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Important, Looks, Body

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• Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

  Barbara Sher

  Fool, Judgmental, Judgment

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.67, Dell

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• I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Wise, Wisdom, Pain

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• ... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.

  Margaret Halsey

  Two, Giving, Likes

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Time, All Time

  Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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• Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.

  Agnes Sanford

  Prayer, Law, Giving

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• At the cross, we see the worst that sin can do, as humanity - of which each one of us is a part - crucified the Lord. But at the cross, we also see that the most that sin can do cannot thwart God's salvation.

  Timothy Keller

  Humanity, Sin, Lord

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• People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Writing, Space, People

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• If you want your life to get better, sometimes the best thing you can do is to help improve somebody else's life.

  Joel Osteen

  Helping Others, Get Better, Want

  Twitter post from Jun 25, 2012

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• It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

  Ike Barinholtz

  Girl, True Friend, Moving

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• As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are.

  J.A. Konrath

  Imagination, Lucky, Alive

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• No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

  Cory Doctorow

  Jobs, Sleep, Should

  Cory Doctorow (2006). “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”, p.247, Macmillan

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• One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Be You, One Thing, Better Than You

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.150, Ballantine Books

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• Be yourself -- it's the one thing you can do better than anyone else.

  Ethel Merman

  Being Yourself, Love Your Children, One Thing

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• The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.

  Mary MacLane

  Literature, World, Succeed

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.46, Petrarca Press

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• if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

  Rachel Maddow

  Government, Want, Immortality

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• If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it. There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Should Have, Long, Want

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• All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

  Myrtle Reed

  Failure, Loss, Reality

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• ... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

  Myrtle Reed

  Heart, Matter, Ache

  MYRTLE REED (1910). “MASTER OF THE VINEYARD”

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