Canned Quotes (page 5)

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• understanding
• than
• just

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons? George Orwell

• eyes
• today
• fading

Can't you see that you're. Fading, fading, fading, fa-a-a-a-away. Away, away, away, away. I opened up my eyes, and I finally realized. Today, today, it's too late. You're fading away Rihanna

• love
• words
• molding

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love? Pearl S. Buck

• consider
• provider
• possibility

Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility? Richard Russo

• devil
• must
• being

can't be rockefeller ... must be the devil Amiri Baraka

• rain
• outsiders
• outsider

Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside. Jack Johnson

• expectation
• snake
• fish

Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland) Douglas Adams

• heart
• forward
• forwards

Can I go forward when my heart is here? William Shakespeare

• imagination
• life
• your life

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs? Jodi Picoult

• usefulness
• pleases
• windows

Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you Bob Dylan

• bee
• pride
• mind

Can you spell everything?" asked Milo admiringly."Just about," replied the bee with a hint of pride in his voice. "You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided tha? Norton Juster

• wellness
• opportunity
• swimming

Can you swim?" said Victor. One of the cavern's rotting pillars crashed down behind them. From the pit itself came a terrible wailing. "Not very well," said Ginger. "Me neither," he said. The commotion behind them was getting worse. "Still," he said, taking her hand. "We could look on this as a great opportunity to improve really quickly. Terry Prachett

• imagination
• world
• power

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole? Michel de Montaigne

• people
• without
• making

Can't make an omelette without killing a few people. Neil Gaiman

• question
• wellness
• intelligent

Can there really be a form of verse where all that counts is the number of syllables in a line? No patterning of stress at all? What is the point? Well, that is a fair and intelligent question and I congratulate myself for asking it. Stephen Fry