A con-man convicted of fraud was sentenced to twenty-five years. He said, 'Judge, I can't serve twenty-five years.' 'Why can't you' 'Because I'm seventy years old now.' Then the judge gave him a very significant reply, 'Well, do the best you can.' Now, are you doing the best you can With all the tools at hand, and all the opportunities and privileges which are yours, are you doing your best Many of us fall down, but we have an opportunity to get up again. Don't be a quitter.
Quotes about can (16 Quotes)
'Can you do addition' the White Queen asked. 'What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one' 'I don't know,' said Alice. 'I lost count.'
Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'
A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'
I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, 'I do not believe you can do as much.' 'True,' said he, 'but every goose can.'
So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.'
'Can any good come out of Nazareth' This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always different from what was expected. Everything new is received with contemptfor it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved.
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.'
With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.
He Oliver Cromwell said 'I see there is a people risen, that I cannot win either with gifts, honors, offices or places but all other sects and people I can.'
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'