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Can Do Quotes (page 31)

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain. Martha Gellhorn
We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don't that we can consciously put the magic in; it doesn't work that way. When the magic comes, it's a gift. Madeleine L'Engle
Talent just defines what you do...It doesn't define what you are. Deep down, I mean. When you know what you are, you can do anything Terry Prachett
Carson McCullers quote: "My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone...."
My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone. ...The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone. Carson McCullers
I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there's not much you can do about inherited traits. Anne Frank
Harper Lee quote: "I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything..."
I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it. Harper Lee
Henry Ford quote: "There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he..."
There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do. Henry Ford
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you. A. A. Milne
Jane Austen quote: "Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater..."
Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now. Jane Austen
They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well? you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference. Bill Hicks
the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life. C. S. Lewis
Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens. Nick Hornby
Rich kid," Shiva yelled, "you don't know one damn thing! What purpose, man? What thing in the whole sister-sleeping world got reason, yara? For what reason you're rich and I'm poor? Where's the reason in starving, man? God knows how many millions of damn fools living in this country, man, and you think there's a purpose! Man, I'll tell you -- you got to get what you can, do what you can with it, and then you got to die. That's reason, rich boy. Everything else is only mother-sleeping wind! Salman Rushdie
You count the years until you get a varsity jersey, then you're a hero, an idol, a cocky bastard because in this town you can do no wrong. You win and win and you're the king of your own little world, then poof, it's gone. You play your last game and everybody cries. You can't believe it's over. Then another team comes right behind you and you're forgotten. John Grisham
My advice: write down everything you eat. It's amazing what that "self honesty" can do for you. (Do you really want to have to confess that doughnut? I thought not.) Alton Brown

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