Cant Quotes - page 6

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)
And one his limb transpierced, and one lopped off, should show, it would be nothing to compare with the disgusting mode of the ninth Bolgia. A cask by losing centre-piece or cant was never shattered so, as I saw one rent from the chin to where one breaketh wind. Between his legs were hanging down his entrails; his heart was visible, and the dismal sack that maketh excrement of what is eaten. While I was all absorbed in seeing him, he looked at me, and opened with his hands his bosom, saying: "See now how I rend me; How mutilated, see, is Mahomet; in front of me doth Ali weeping go, cleft in the face from forelock unto chin; and all the others whom thou here beholdest, disseminators of scandal and of schism while living were, and therefore are cleft thus. View quote
Dante Alighieri
You cant spend your life apologizing. View quote
Jude Law
Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself. View quote
Gerhard Richter
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement. View quote
Ira Glass
Theres such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just cant compare yourself to people in magazines. View quote
Kate Beckinsale
I love the idea of a left conservative because it gets rid of political cant. We're stifling in it. View quote
Norman Mailer
If its tourist season, why cant we shoot them. View quote
Steven Wright
And breath, deeply from this envelope, it smells like you, and I, cant be, without that scent, its filling me, with all you mean to me. View quote
Chris Carrabba
Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality. View quote
Camille Paglia
What good are friends if they cant do you any good? (Anton LaVey)
I cant back up and start over. But I dont see the point in slobberin over it. And I cant see where it would make me feel better to be able to point a finger at somebody else. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My bodys so noisy, I cant sleep. View quote
Charles M. Schulz
Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep. View quote
Kamila Shamsie
And I know that it's a wonderful world, but I cant feel it right now. View quote
James Morrison (singer)
Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highlyof them, when instead they should try to get their people tothink more highly of themselves.Its wonderful when the people believe in their leader.Its more wonderful when the leader believes in their peopleYou cant hold a man down withoutstaying down with him. Booker T. Washington. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they cant do. They dont know what they want because they dont know whats available to them. View quote
Zig Ziglar
Gettysburg.... You cant understand it. You would have to be born there. View quote
William Faulkner
You cant legislate intelligence and common sense into people. View quote
Will Rogers
My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I cant do anything about. View quote
Ashleigh Brilliant
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why cant the rest of us make them go away. View quote
Bill Maher
Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly, too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking, perceiving, questioning are encouraged. View quote
John C. Maxwell
If you think that one individual cant make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house. View quote
Bill Vaughan
i usedta live in the world really be in the world free & sweet talkin good mornin & thank-you & nice day uh huh i cant now i cant be nice to nobody nice is such a rip-off regular beauty & a smile in the street is just a set-up. View quote
Ntozake Shange