Top 100 Can That Quotes
#1. Healthy skepticism is often the best way to glean the value of what's being presented - challenge it; prove it wrong, if you can. That creates engagement, which is the key to understanding.
David Allen
#2. My neighbors ask me what the u.s. is like, and they accuse me of lying when i tell them about the hunger and cold and people sleeping in the streets. They refuse to believe me. How can that be in such a rich country?
Assata Shakur
#3. Those are rabbits down there, trotting along like a lot of squirrels with nuts. How can that be right?
Richard Adams
#4. Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Eugene Delacroix
#5. Did I hear things, or can that little dog speak?" said Dibbler. "He says he can't," said Victor. Dibbler hesitated. "Well," he said, "I suppose he should know.
Terry Pratchett
#6. I've been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don't think I'm in danger of being typecast as the romantic lead. I think there's honour in working as constantly as you can. That isn't easy. And I'm no matinee idol.
Tobias Menzies
#7. Knowing that time is short is important. Knowing to make the best use of it you can, that's important. Letting those around you know you love them. Because you never know when you'll have to say good-bye.
Audrey Couloumbis
#8. I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.
Joan Didion
#9. Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.
Jules Shear
#10. I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do.
Danny Bautista
#11. Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put into the body.
Prentice Mulford
#12. I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.
Buck Owens
#13. It breaks my heart to know that millions of gay Americans still can't marry the one they love and I can. That makes no sense
Kristen Bell
#14. I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
Augusten Burroughs
#15. That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
Billy Bragg
#16. On the forest floor was the LVR's smoldering ceiling panel, just lying there like the lid of a sardine can that had been eagerly and violently thrown away by someone who very much liked sardines.
Cuthbert Soup
#17. Do whatever you can that doesn't compromise your morals.
Penny Marshall
#18. A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up.
John Sexton
#19. Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.
Joseph O'Neill
#20. Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season
these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?
George Will
#21. The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.
Alfred Bunn
#22. So I started to think: "How can that happen?" ... So the guy says, "What are you doing? You come fix the radio, but you're only walking back and forth!" I say, "I'm thinking!
Richard Feynman
#23. Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.
Joseph Hall
#24. If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.
Felix Frankfurter
#25. I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
Catullus
#26. Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
Matthew Arnold
#27. I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#28. Would you believe, they insist on complete absence of individualism and that's just what they relish! Not to be themselves, to be as unlike themselves as they can. That's what they regard as the highest point of progress.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#29. There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is.
Roxane Gay
#30. Never can that be told, for those who saw and lived through it have lost the gift of words and those who are dead can tell no tales. Those were things which are not told, but forgotten. Fore where they not forgotten, how could they ever be repeated?
Ivo Andric
#31. I have a lot of ideas and I want to be able to work. To me, it's like one of these contests where you get five minutes in a supermarket to take anything off the shelves you want and try to fill your cart up as much as you can. That's the way I look at my work.
George Lucas
#32. Sometimes, you can feel or see how a movie can ... how you can do it. Sometimes it's just like seeing, "Can that work? Will people buy that? Can we do that?" And all those checkmarks.
Tina Fey
#33. Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
Hermann Hesse
#34. Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
Walter Savage Landor
#35. I don't think there is any one route to directing ... Other than that I think you just have to think 'By any means possible' and take any job you can that will get you experience. I also did a lot for free. I got paid virtually nothing for my first film, but it changed my life.
Mary Harron
#36. If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?
Timothy Keller
#37. No, Bob. Just no. For crying out loud. She's seventeen.
Better move quick, then, Bob said. Before anything starts to droop. Taste of perfection while you can, that's what I always say.
.....
The perverted little creep has a point, my host.
Jim Butcher
#38. Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.
Bill Ayers
#39. If you're overwhelmed, lost, or like you life is out of control, do whatever you can that matters to someone else or ever did to you ... it might not help, but it certainly won't hurt.
Ingrid Weir
#40. Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.
Michael Schudson
#41. Luckily, I'm young and I have a great training staff that helps me take care of my body day in and day out. You make sure you're eating right. Make sure you're hitting the iron, lifting as much as you possibly can. That's easier said than done because we don't have many practice days.
Kevin Love
#42. I should stop apologizing for being overly analytical about this, even though I am sorry (not to you but in a deeper way, sorry for my brain chemistry and who I am. I do what I can that isn't heroin to modify it but I was born as anxious and obsessive as any incredibly gorgeous child ever could be.)
Lena Dunham
#43. I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy.
Michael Sheen
#45. Some people say about human beings, 'Dust to dust'.
But how can that be true of one
who changes road dust to doorway?
The crop appears to be one thing
when it is still in the field.
Then the transformation time comes,
and we see how it is: half chaff, half grain.
Rumi
#46. God, he liked this man. In fact, Tate thought he was pretty damn amazing, and that was when it hit him. Somehow, this man is perfect for me. Tate brought his eyes back to Logan's face. How can that be? And more importantly, how am I okay with the fact that my perfect person is a him.
Ella Frank
#47. Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.
Yo Gotti
#48. To want other people to grow. To want other people to have all the good things that you have. And to spare them the bad things if you can. That was goodness.
Orson Scott Card
#49. Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.
Ville Valo
#50. It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?
Robin Wright
#51. According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?
Sun Tzu
#52. How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom? How can that which has never been be extinguished?
Frederick Lenz
#53. While no other success of ours can compensate for our failures within or outside our homes, there is a success that can compensate when we cannot, after we conscientiously do all we can. That success is the Atonement of Jesus Christ, which can mend what for us is beyond repair.
Bruce C. Hafen
#54. I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.
Beeban Kidron
#55. What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
Joseph Addison
#56. Going in one more round when you don't think you can that's what makes all the difference in your life.
Sylvester Stallone
#57. Tribal Chief 1: The will of the people is what is best. That is what democracy means
Tribal Chief 2: But if the people don't know what they are talking about, how can that be the best?
Leonard Wibberley
#58. My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.
Luke Bryan
#59. Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully.
I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw a punch like you can. That was poetry in motion, Liss." She groaned.
Richelle Mead
#60. Many dancers are content with the repertoire they're given. Others are dissatisfied but don't know why. Then there are a few like me that are curious and grab at everything. Can that curiosity thrive in the ballet world, or should it exist elsewhere? That's the eternal question.
David Hallberg
#61. Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?
Robert Schumann
#62. Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?
Francis Alys
#63. When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you're supposed to give it all you can. That's what marriage is about.
Khloe Kardashian
#64. There is a lot of focus on TV, in magazines ... about being skinny and rich. I don't think those are that important. It's much more important for us to be good, honest people that try to help others and live the best life we can. That's where you get your satisfaction ultimately.
Laura Evans
#65. Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.
John Wooden
#66. One thing is certain: That is that the power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. That is a fact.
Daisaku Ikeda
#67. We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war.
There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war.
Also they make money out of it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#68. On the road, I try to maintain my connections with friends and family as much as I possibly can. That keeps me pretty grounded.
Noelle Scaggs
#69. I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.
James Gunn
#70. Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
Verne Troyer
#71. There are certain persons who can ... that is, not precisely are able to, but have a perfect right to commit breaches of morality and crimes, and that the law is not for them.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#72. I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.
Gerhard Richter
#73. Even in your closest friendships, you're alone. Maybe it's your best friend who, in fact, reminds you, just by making it her business to try to know your heart, that no one can - that our fate is to suffer in isolation and then die. But it's our collective fate! So I guess I'm an optimist.
Lauren Fox
#74. When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.
Matthew Fox
#76. I believe it matters how you treat people. I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done. I have a lovely relationship with God, although when I've lost someone or I've seen a sick child, I've had conversations with Him in which I've had to ask, 'How can that be right?'
Melissa McCarthy
#77. Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.
Dean Koontz
#78. And if you do all you can, that's all you can ever do.
Warren Rudman
#79. If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that's a script!
Terrence Malick
#80. And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.
Dallas Willard
#81. What's become of "yes we can?" That's easy. Finally people are starting to read the bills.
Tom C. Korologos
#82. It's amazing to me how people throw stuff on the ground right next to a trash can. That drives me crazy.
Eric Close
#83. When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.
David Eddings
#84. I really respect peple who try. People who say, No, I'm actually going to do the best I can. That said, you want to do the best you can while remaining who you are.
Christian Finnegan
#85. What can that mean except that women's sexuality is what really defines them, not their brains and gifts and individuality and character, and certainly not their wishes or their ambitions or their will?
Katha Pollitt
#86. Started as a nightmare but now seems like the sweetest dream." Her head tipped to the side and a small, confused smile played at her lips when she whispered, "How can that be?
Kristen Ashley
#87. Everyone thinks it goes smoothly in everyone else's house, and theirs is the only place that has problems. I'll let you in on a secret about teaching: there is no place in the world where it rolls along smoothly without problems. Only in articles and books can that happen.
Ruth Beechick
#88. A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.
Samuel Johnson
#90. Sometimes the best people to be around are not exactly like you - because if they were, what is the point? If they contribute something different than you can, that is when they are valuable.
Jamie Hyneman
#91. If we're talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify as quickly as it can. That needs to be said every time this issue comes up, because it's the only universal strategy that works.
Alex Steffen
#92. Do you think this world is perfect, boy?" he said. "Do you think this is the way I would have wanted it? Life is what it is. Surrender your immaculate hopes and bear what you can. That is all we can do".
David Kirk
#93. Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.
Bryce Harper
#94. I think it's important that you always transform if you can. That's what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can - that's the key to longevity.
Tom Hardy
#95. Our lives are constantly changing. Different things become relevant at different times in our lives. We are motivated by our changing sensibilities. Why can that not be applied to art?
Sarah Thornton
#96. If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?
Andrew Solomon
#97. What I find astounding is that we've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years, who gets most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood. Yet, there are not very many roles for people of color. How can that be? And why is it just now being addressed?
Stacey Dash
#98. All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.
P.D. James
#99. Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.
Rolf Jacobsen
#100. GrayG: I feel like I can tell you anything.
IvyMac: You can. That's what friends do.
GrayG: I've never been friends with a girl before.
IvyMac: I'm honored to be your first.
Kristen Callihan
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