Canting Quotes

#1. Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

Robert Burns

#2. Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Laurence Sterne

#3. The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

Nicholas Cresswell

#4. I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Think what you will, blackbird, for I'll be here long after thee's gone they course and died thy death.

Stephen King

#7. I wondered what sound he would call it if I told him that saying things like that made me want to spend forever with him.

Megan Squires

#8. For some folks the world is filled to the top with hurt.

Jason E. Hodges

#9. Colin Farrel was recently asked about prostitutes and he said, It's like ordering a pizza. Really? What restaurant is he going to? All I ever get is a pizza ... I guess in some ways it is - when it's delivered, it's never quite as hot as you hoped it would be.

Jay Leno

#10. Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#11. Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

Edgar Schein

#12. Asking for and receiving help is a way to prime the pump of generosity.

Jay Perry

#13. It was believed by the purveyors of male fantasies in films that nurses were a popular male fantasy because they were caring, and they were women who could legitimately touch men all over.

Stephanie Rothman

#14. Creativity is your ticket to prosperity.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology.

Noam Chomsky