No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!
Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.
I am clever enough to know that I am clever.
I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, and clever.
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.
I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don’t insist upon that. It’s her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me.
If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes. As Dr. Douglas Brinley has observed, 'Without theological perspectives, secular exercises designed to improve our relationship and our communication skills (the common tools of counselors and marriage books) will never work any permanent change in one's heart: they simply develop more clever and skilled fighters!
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