Cant Quotes - Page 14

• ... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Greek, Humanity, Insulting

  'Crotchet Castle' (1831) ch. 7

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• The English are the people of consummate cant.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Insulting, England

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.62, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now. Though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will come saturated with pain. Life is like that. At least my life. And honestly, I cant think of anyone whose life is any different. The price tag for joy is misery. [...]

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

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• You cant be trapped by other people you can only be trapped by your fear, defy and win!

  Michael Grant

  Winning, People, Trapped

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• Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

  W. H. Auden

  Like Love, Knows

  "Law like Love" l. 57 (1939)

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• Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.

  John Berger

  Drawing, People, Trying

  John Berger (2007). “Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths”, p.9, Vintage

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• Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Broken Heart, Kissing

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

  Cormac McCarthy

  Forever, Going Away, Steps

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.227, Vintage

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• Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.94, Penguin

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• I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation - with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Struggle, Heart, Games

  "This Side of Paradise". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920.

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• I honestly believe that people who never have children or never love a child are doomed to a sort of foolishness because it cant be described or explained, that love. I didnt know anything before I had him, and I havent learned anything since I lost him. Everything that isnt loving a child is just for show.

  Haven Kimmel

  Children, Believe, People

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• When did you become a woman?"-Hatori How dare you ask that after you have seen me naked so many times..."-Yuki GASP! No it cant be! Yuki-kun, does that mean..." fan club girls NO! He's my doctor..."Yuki

  Natsuki Takaya

  Girl, Mean, Doctors

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• a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Risk, Trying

  William Faulkner (1985). “Light in August”, Vintage

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• Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Girl, Lovely

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.48, Ageless Reads

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• But you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive.

  Sapphire

  Trying, Details, Hung

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• Everything was fine, but Weetzie wanted a baby. “How could you want one?” My Secret Agent Lover Man said. “There are way too many babies. And diseases. And nuclear accidents. And crazy psychos. We cant have a baby,” he said.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Baby, Crazy, Men

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Dangerous Angels: Five Weetzie Bat Books”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league.” “Then I wish for an infinite number of wishes!” Those people on fairy tales never thought of that. “People in fairy tales wish for that all the time,” the genie said. “They arent stupid. It just isnt in the records because I cant grant that type of wish.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sorry, Stupid, Numbers

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• I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

  Charles de Lint

  Inspirational, Thinking, Insperational

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• You are in my blood. I cant help it. We can't be anywhere except together

  Francesca Lia Block

  Blood, Together, Helping

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• there are some things in life a person just cant know

  Sarah Weeks

  Things In Life, Persons, Knows

  Sarah Weeks (2009). “So B. It”, p.33, Zondervan

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• Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Men, Thinking, Disrespect

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didnt. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I thinkI done the best with itI knew how but itstill wasntmine. It neverhas been.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Thinking, Done, Benefits

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• But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Mean, Love Someone

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• thats why you cant be worried about the world. theyll just do you in anyway. you can't depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disapear and leave you there alone.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  World, Worried, Turns

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Dec 28, 2016

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• Another one from the immortals and again i cant remember what book. Haven to Ever In every relationship there is always someone who loves more, my point is no matter how it looks from the outside the truth is, its never really equal, that's just not the way it works,there is always the pursued and the pursuer, the cat and the mouse.

  Alyson Noel

  Book, Cat, Looks

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