Cant Quotes - Page 17

• I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Hate, Hypocrisy, Hatred

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 298, 1895.

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• I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.

  Jonathan Swift

  Astrology, Long, Abuse

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.253

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• Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

  John Dewey

  Men, Medicine, Psychology

  The Public and Its Problems Ch. 5

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• I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes - and that's because I am passionate about the truth... I do get very impatient with humbug, with cant, with fakery, with charlatans.

  Richard Dawkins

  Knowing, Mind, Atheism

  "Belief" Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. October 22, 2009.

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• There's a connection that's hard to explain. It's the feeling I get when I see someone shuffle up to meet me, or say something, and I can instantly tell by the cant of their head or by the movement of their arms -- and these are people who aren't even full-blown symptomatic -- that they're one of us. And the look they give me, it's not just gratitude -- I don't care about the gratitude -- but solidarity. And shared optimism. And a resiliency that just makes me think we're doing the right thing, and that this truly is a community.

  Michael J. Fox

  Gratitude, Thinking, Optimism

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.

  Camille Paglia

  Syllabus, Students, Study

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.75, Canongate Books

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• The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.

  Theodore Parker

  Christian, Mother, Hypocrisy

  "Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker: Minister of the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society, Boston, Vol. 1". Book by John Weiss, p. 374, 1864.

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• I don't think it makes a difference if you have children or you don't have children. I think it's all in the head about how you feel and, I don't know, I always like to be active and work out and eat right and just be active so I never see it as, oh when you're a mom you can't be sexy or you can't be in lingerie anymore looking good.

  Heidi Klum

  Mom, Sexy, Children

  WCBS-TV, December 03, 2008.

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• Well I know that you worry a lot about Things you cant control There are so many things wed like to have But we just cannot hold You've got to be kind to yourself You've got to be kind to yourself

  Zooey Deschanel

  Worry, Be Kind, Wells

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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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• I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

  Brian Eno

  Creation, Duplicate, Happens

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• You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself.

  Ida Rolf

  Body

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• Outside openings to attics, crawl spaces and similar locations should be sealed off so rats and squirrels cant get into houses, garages or other structures. Pet owners should make an extra effort to keep their domestic animals free of fleas and avoid leaving out pet food where it can attract wild animals.

  Frank Hall

  Animal, Space, Squirrels

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• To face one who is extraordinary,I cant allow myself to be ordinary

  Zoro

  Ordinary, Faces, Extraordinary

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• You cant please all the people all the time.

  Miranda Richardson

  People, Please, Divides

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• I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

  Jane Horrocks

  Ears, Notes, Just Do It

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• Now Ive got this moniker that Im the foot-in-mouth gal, and I keep thinking, In what way? Because I said something you dont agree with? Because I said something you dont like? Im just telling you my opinion. I hate the idea that I cant be honest about how I feel about things because its going to piss somebody off who feels differently. That seems preposterous to me.

  Katherine Heigl

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

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• Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Growing Up, Silly, Moving

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• Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable

  Rick Warren

  Past, Worry, Energy

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Nov 11, 2011

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• You cant write about stuff you dont know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

  Dierks Bentley

  Life, Dirty, Writing

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• Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

  Michael Korda

  Dream, Writing, Reality

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• Either you don't know how to
  do something or you choose not to do something. There is no CANT!

  Marshall Sylver

  Know How, Knows, You Choose

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• In my business you cant trust anyone because you dont know whos your friend. Becoming successful means you become a prisoner

  Michael Jackson

  Mean, Successful, Becoming

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• Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.

  William Faulkner

  Understanding, Gettysburg, Born

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• Follow your heart and chase your dreams until you catch them. Negative people who say you cant do something are only speaking for themselves

  Jake Pitts

  Dream, Heart, Bvb

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