Clever Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Smart, People, Smart People

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book One in 'The Duel Between the Professor and the Poet', B/O, 1967.

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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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• [Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.

  Terry Gilliam

  Nice, Stupid, Home

  YouTube Channel "MeatTycoon"/"Terry Gilliam criticizes Spielberg and Schindler's List", www.youtube.com. August 14, 2009.

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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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• To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

  Roger Zelazny

  Art, Waste, Embalming

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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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• But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.

  Pope Pius X

  Teaching, Reality, Errors

  Pope Pius X's Encyclical letter "Pascendi dominici gregis", w2.vatican.va. September 8,1907.

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• The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So many writers talk about libraries setting them on their magical paths, it's almost a groaner. But we know it's true. Wander through the stacks and you can feel the dreams, the unique worlds bubbling within each volume. The magic enters you as if by osmosis. On the Web, you may feel clever, lucky and driven to download--but rarely inspired to dream and to write.

  Arthur Plotnik

  Dream, Writing, Unique

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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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• A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

  John Buchan

  Men, Trying, Different

  John Buchan (2016). “THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS & Other Adventure Stories (7 Action-Packed Titles in One Volume): Gripping Tales of Dangerous Exploits, Mysteries & Espionage Intrigue: The Thirty-Nine Steps, Midwinter, Prester John, A Prince of the Captivity, Salute to Adventurers, The Path of the King...”, p.88, e-artnow

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• The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Miracle, Incentives, Mixtures

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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• Post-​wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-​pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-​absorption without self-​awareness.

  Leslie Jamison

  Sarcastic, Hurt, Pain

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• With all the clever brains in America it would be great to see more investment and focus on this essential research!

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  America, Focus, Brain

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• Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Player, Feet, Messi

  "Messi Leaves La Liga Greats Trailing". uk.reuters.com. November 23, 2014.

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