Clever Quotes - Page 36

• Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I have sometimes wished that some clever man would actually have a baby in some new labor-saving way; then all men could take it up, and one of the oldest taunts in the world would be stilled forever.

  Robertson Davies

  Baby, Men, Forever

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• The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait,
  A revenge not only necessary but right and clever--
  Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

  Donald Justice

  Art, Revenge, Waiting

  Donald Justice (2009). “New And Selected Poems”, p.71, Knopf

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• The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

  Laozi

  Powerful, War, Blessing

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• Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent and clever, is really only pleasing to himself and a small handful of others. The world passes him by and beckons to life and beauty ... to gay and handsome creatures to whom the hearts of their fellow men continue to turn.

  Theodor Fontane

  Heart, Gay, Men

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• All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.

  Ry Cooder

  Wise, Wisdom, Feel Good

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• I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured him. "Absolutely the correct etiquette-to her face. However, well... When I first met Firekeeper, less than a year ago, her relationships with animals fell into pretty much two categories: those you ate and those you befriended. I remember that she thought we were pretty clever for bringing horses along so we wouldn't need to hunt our meat. It took me a while to show her they had other uses.

  Jane Lindskold

  Horse, Animal, Years

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• Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.

  I. J. Good

  Men, Design, Intellectual

  "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine". Advances in Computers, vol. 6, 1965.

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• Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what in French is called esprit de l'escalier or wit of the staircase: a great thought which unfortunately is an afterthought, like a clever reply that would have stunned all the other dinner guests - if only you had thought of it before walking down the stairs after the party is over.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Running, Party, Dinner Guests

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• Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

  Matt Groening

  Way

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• Your fingertips across my skin, The palm trees swaying in the wind, Images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, The sweetest sadness in your eyes, Clever trick... I cannot go to the ocean, I cannot drive the streets at night, I cannot wake up in the morning without you on my mind, So now you're gone and I'm haunted, And I bet you are just fine. Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?..

  A Fine Frenzy

  Morning, Ocean, Sadness

  "Almost Lover". Song by Alison Sudol (A Fine Frenzy), May 22, 2007.

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• Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.

  Judith Viorst

  Loss, Passionate, Matter

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?

  Jeff Bezos

  Be Kind, Kind, Expenses

  "We are What We Choose". Princeton University 2010 speech, www.princeton.edu. May 30, 2010.

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• I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Long, Hearing, Sometimes

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.143, Courier Corporation

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• Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.

  Bear Grylls

  Strong, Hard Work, Fighting

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• People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I answer that it is not clever at all. It is the gift of looking at oneself coolly, of calculating the future objectively. I could see the danger signals as far as ballet was concerned before anyone else did, that's all.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, People, Ballet

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

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• I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Temptation, Resistance, I Can

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• We are never alone. We are all aspects of one great being. No matter how far apart we are, the air links us.

  Yoko Ono

  Wise, Wisdom, Air

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• No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

  Virginia Woolf

  Ideas, People

  Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (1977). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915-1919”, Chatto & Windus

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• Chennai Super Kings will win the IPL. MS Dhoni's
  Clever Captaincy is the reason behind Chennai
  Super Kings’ success in #‎ IPL !

  Kevin Pietersen

  Kings, Winning, Ms Dhoni

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• People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Trying, Difficult

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 210, 1909.

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• Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Song, Sex

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• True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Grace, Use

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Contemplative Prayer”, p.70, Image

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• Christianity is not a matter of persuading people of particular ideas, but of inviting them to share in the greatness of Christ. So pray that I may never fall into the trap of impressing people with clever speech, but instead I may learn to speak with humility, desiring only to impress people with Christ himself.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Fall, Humility, Greatness

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• Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she had from the beginning into wisdom and a clearsightedness that reaches past sympathy.

  Tom Shippey

  Past, Imagination, Coyotes

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• A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

  John Steinbeck

  Beautiful, Book, Men

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.372, Penguin

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