Cancel Quotes
104 quotes by 99 authors
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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
— Arthur Ashe
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Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was so much better…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd…
— Albert Camus
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As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be…
— Craig Kilborn
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.
— Sam Horn
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The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ...…
— Auberon Waugh
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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of…
— June Jordan
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Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn…
— George Washington
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When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to…
— Harry Shearer
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That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.
— Alan Rickman
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Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may…
— Nick Harkaway
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The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends,…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Let's pass a bill to cover the moon with yogurt that will cost $5 trillion today. And then let's pass a bill the next day…
— Paul Ryan
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I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.
— Richard Davies
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Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up…
— Jeffery Deaver
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I think it's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted. I'd say, even at this late date, they should…
— Gabe Newell
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Days will pass, and you’ll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.
— Nizar Qabbani
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You wouldn't cancel your insurance policy in the middle of a hurricane, and you shouldn't sell silver when it takes a tumble. Like any insurance,…
— Howard Ruff
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99 authors contributed a total of 104 Cancel Quotes, led by these top contributors: