Clever Quotes - Page 10

• Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

  Dean Koontz

  Life, Two, Cruelty

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.308, Bantam

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• It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Common Sense, Different

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion - pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come.

  George F. Kennan

  Morning, Sleep, Russia

  "George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy". Book by David Allan Mayers, p. 30, 1988.

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• Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.

  Laura Riding

  Thinking, Imagination, No Friends

  "Progress of Stories". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter "Daisy and Venison", 1935.

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• A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Charming, Models, Fellows

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• You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.

  Morgan Freeman

  Simple, Play, Giving

  "Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen Talk THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, and Turning SIDEWAYS Into a Play". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 4, 2012.

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• My idea of the perfect man would be someone intelligent and clever enough, but also kind and compassionate enough to stand up to me - to stand up to me with compassion.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Intelligent, Men, Compassion

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.

  Ala Bashir

  Intelligent, People, Mask

  "Saddam Hussein's Former Doctor Paints a Different Picture" by Charlotte Sector, abcnews.go.com. April 28, 2006.

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• If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.

  Harvey Dunn

  Integrity, Want, Ifs

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• A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway).

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Beautiful, Knitting, Yarn

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2011). “All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin”, p.120, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Foolish Man

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 6, 1678.

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• The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Believe, Men

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• Old and sick, more than one hundred years Face haggard, hair white, I'm happy to still live in the mountains A cloth covered phantom watching the years flow by Why envy people with clever ways of living?

  Hanshan

  Hair, Years, White

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• To be rude is as good as being clever.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Rude

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.122

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• This person called up and said, You've got to come and take this seminar. It will completely change your life in just one weekend. And I said, Well, I don't want to completely change my life this weekend. I've got a lot of things to do on Monday.

  Rick Fields

  Funny, Monday, Smart

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• Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Design, Needs, Sometimes

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• Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?

  Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

  Men, Shoes, Feet

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• For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
  A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
  Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man;
  But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool.
  I never made a mistake in my life;
  At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mistake, Men, Males

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• Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed by clever demagogues, might capriciously send out military forces in unnecessary and exhausting adventures.

  Thucydides

  Military, Adventure, Simple

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Stars, Mistake

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• Peace is not a dream; peace is an option! You either choose peace and prove that you are clever and angelic, or choose war proving that you are stupid and devilish!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Peace, War

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• Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn't any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Intelligent, Effort, Heaven

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• Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Flower, Cities

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• City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Cities, Mad

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• Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

  Plato

  Encouraging, Running, Perseverance

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