Clever Quotes - Page 14

• The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Worst, Knows

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Pictures”, p.60, Whitaker House

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

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Charming, Models, Fellows

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• Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  People, Important, Stories

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

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Design, Needs, Sometimes

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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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• 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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• 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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• A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.

  Sally Potter

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Grass [marijuana] probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

  George Carlin

  Hurt, Kids, Marijuana

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• Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.

  Brian Tracy

  Average, People, Focus

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• I really liked Tom & Jerry. That was huge for me. I watched it every morning, before I walked to school. Even as a kid, I thought there was something really smart about it. I thought it was very clever.

  Jason Lee

  Morning, Smart, School

  "Jason Lee ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or an ethnic minority, or a weary old man. If anything, writing from the perspective of a child is probably easier for me. When I was a kid everyone thought I was so clever and precocious. Now that I'm adult, everyone thinks that I'm kinda odd and childish.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Children, Kids, Writing

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• The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Funny, Humor, Intelligent

  1908 The Wind in the Willows, ch.10.

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• If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Writing, People

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• The Kit Kat candy bar has the name Kit Kat imprinted into the chocolate. That robs you of chocolate! That's a clever chocolate-saving technique.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Names

  "Mitch All Together". Live Album by Mitch Hedberg, 2003.

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