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Laurence Sterne Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768

Topics

World Criticism Worst May Most Cant

I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now.

Jimmy Carl Black

Good Me Possibilities You Know Now

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

John Shelby Spong

Truth Religion You Prove Need Get

Inspiration comes from everywhere. Obviously, my lyrics are what I most care about in the moment and what I feel like I need to say.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

Moment Care Feel Say Need Like

At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while watching my year in 'dinner withs' skate by. When I'm done, I save the old calendar in the box of the new one and put it with the others on a shelf.

Sloane Crosley

Dinner End Year Calendar New Done

I still am in touch with several friends from high school. I don't go to reunions much. I'm afraid that if I go back to the school, they'll suddenly go, 'You know what? We've checked the records and you still have one more French class. Get back in here.'

Sigourney Weaver

School High School Friends You Back

When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

Simon Van Booy

Yourself Space Landscape You Need

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Down Principles Way Question Own

We're not meant to be parents when we're 50.

Roseanne Barr

Parents Meant To Be Meant

It's hard to say no to your kid. It's hard for them to stomp off and not be happy with you for an hour.

Martina McBride

Happy Be Happy You Say Hard Kid

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

Mohsin Hamid

Writing Point Being Writer

You can tell when somebody's authentic about what they're saying.

Joy Mangano

Saying You Tell Somebody Authentic

We've had enough with the gun traffickers and straw purchasers who buy guns out of state and sell them out of the trunks of their cars in Chicago.

Dick Durbin

Gun Enough Chicago Out Guns Sell