Clever Quotes - Page 31

• I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I distinctly remember my Aunt Fanny saying to me, etc.

  George Seaton

  Writing, Aunt, People

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• When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden, because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So they conceal it within sturdy walls or they place it behind closed doors or they obscure it with clever disguises but truth, no matter how ugly, always emerges. And someone we care about always ends up getting hurt. And someone else will revel in their pain and that's the ugliest truth of all.

  Mary Alice

  Hurt, Wall, Pain

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• No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.

  James Denney

  Jesus, Men, Giving

  James Denney (1895). “Studies in Theology: Lectures Delivered in Chicago Theological Seminary”

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• The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

  Ogden Nash

  Life, Sex, Humorous

  "The Turtle" l. 1 (1931)

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• Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

  Ogden Nash

  Sports, Psychology, Dumb

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!

  Ronnie Wood

  Two Sides, People, Wrong Impression

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• Is this a topic whose time has truly come? The integration of science and religion? Or have I just written a clever book that temporarily impressed a few people and will otherwise go as quickly as it came?

  Ken Wilber

  Book, People, Soul

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

  Winston Churchill

  Latin, Learning, Boys

  My Early Life ch. 2 (1930)

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• Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at your best endeavor. For the target art has a broad expanse, And wherever you chance to hit it, Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame, There are those who will never admit it.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Art, Strong, Eye

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1067, Delphi Classics

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• I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

  Jack Dee

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

  Angela Carter

  Experience, Literature, Female

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical

  Thomas Huxley

  Mistake, People, Causes

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.70, Cambridge University Press

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• We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Children, World

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Opportunity, People, Advantage

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• The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

  Theodore Levitt

  Engineering, Purpose, Wizardry

  Theodore Levitt (1986). “Marketing Imagination: New, Expanded Edition”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite some time and just plain reading fun. M.J. Rose is at the top of her game, and that is saying something.

  David Liss

  Fun, Reading, Games

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• When you educate without the Holy Spirit, you only get a clever devil.

  Adrian Rogers

  Devil, Spirit, Holy

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• If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Yield, Answers, Apes

  Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House

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• With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

  Max McKeown

  Self, Victory, Today

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• Christmas in Bethlehem. The earliest dream: a cold, clear night made bright by a magnificent star, the smell of anger, marshals and clever men falling to their knees in love of the lovely baby, the avatar of faultless love...!!!

  Lucinda Franks

  Dream, Baby, Stars

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• Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME in my hectic, harried life I actually UNDERSTAND how meditation is supposed to work and WHY I should give it a TRY!

  Elisabeth Leamy

  Rain, Giving, Meditation

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• As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

  Thomas Traherne

  Wise, Wisdom, Thinking

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Witty, Writing, Frustration

  "Best-Selling Author Warns ‘You Might Not Want to Buy’ His Book". www.wired.com. October 25, 2014.

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• I'm very clever
  at
  hiding poems
  perhaps more
  clever than I
  am
  at
  writing
  them.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Hiding, Very Clever

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• Beware of Destination Addiction... a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.

  Robert Holden

  Happiness, Wise, Wisdom

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