Clever Quotes - Page 33

• Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

  Horace

  Wise, Wisdom, Wings

  Epistles bk. 1, no. 18, l. 71

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• The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Wise, Wisdom, Speak

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• There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.

  Rajneesh

  Wise, Wisdom, Past

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• Blessed if you do... Blessed if you don't... Blessed no matter what!

  Doreen Virtue

  Wise, Wisdom, Blessed

  Twitter post from Jul 24, 2016

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• Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Wise, Wisdom, Lying

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• This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end with an endless beginning, Pretty clever if you ask me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Simple, Color

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• I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.

  Joseph Epstein

  Writing, Arrows, Syntax

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• Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever

  Criss Jami

  Cleverness

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.51, Criss Jami

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• No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Independent, Men, Honorable Man

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• If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

  Patrice Leconte

  Giving, Directors, Film

  "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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• In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Smart, Hard Work, Feelings

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

  Anthony Minghella

  Girl, Kids, Firsts

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• Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

  Denise Mina

  Book, Writing, People

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• The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

  Samuel West

  Russia, Ideas, Would Be

  "Best of the West". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2007.

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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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