Smart Quotes - Page 24

• What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.

  Michael Lewis

  Wall, Odds, People

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.266, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy.

  Gina Gershon

  Sexy, Cat, Thinking

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• It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children; that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Children, Men, Thinking

  Elizabeth Berg (2000). “Open House: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Funny Life, Looking Good, Young

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Most analysts are SO SMART and have amazing ideas, but they can't convey their genius ideas to others.

  Chip Heath

  Ideas, Genius, Analysts

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• Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.

  Cate Tiernan

  Stupid, Safe

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• As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning brain cells." "Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to tangents.

  John Green

  Marijuana, Cells, Alaska

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.46, Penguin

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• From the first, you enchanted me. You are more than beautiful. You are smart and strong and determined. When I'm with you. I want to be a better man. I want to be worthy of you. I want to provide for you I want to give you the life you deserve. One day, I will. Because I know, deep in my soul, that to part is to die. - Gideon to Scarlet (wedding vows)

  Gena Showalter

  Beautiful, Strong, Men

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• Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk?

  Nick Hornby

  Odds, People, Work Out

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• I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.

  Red Grange

  Football, Running, Nfl

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• A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.

  Steven Brust

  Clever, Mistake, Stupid

  Steven Brust (2010). “Iorich”, p.172, Macmillan

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• You’re kind of a psycho. I get that.” “I might be,” Monica agreed, and gave her a slow, strange smile. “You’re one smart little freak. Now run away, smart little freak, before I change my mind and stick you in one of these old suitcases for some architect to find a hundred years from now.” Claire blinked. “Archaeologist.” Monica’s eyes turned winter cold. “Oh, you’d better start running away now.

  Rachel Caine

  Running, Eye, Winter

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.107, Penguin

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• Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there. His desire to become a Runner had taken a major blow. But he had to do it. Somehow he KNEW he had to do it. It was such an odd thing to feel, especially after what he'd just seen... Thomas knew he was a smart kid- he somehow felt it in his bones. But nothing about this place made any sense. Except for one thing. He was supposed to be a Runner. Why did he feel that so strongly? And even now, after seeing what lived in the maze?

  James Dashner

  Taken, Kids, Blow

  James Dashner (2009). “The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One): Book One”, p.39, Delacorte Press

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• I blame Jeb for letting you be such a smart aleck.” I stared at her. “I blame you for altering my DNA! I mean, I have wings, lady! What were you thinking?

  James Patterson

  Mean, Thinking, Dna

  James Patterson (2011). “Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• Who is he when he isn't Dauntless, isn't an instructor, isn't Four, isn't anything in particular? Whoever he is, I like him. It's easier to admit that to myself now, in the dark, after all that just happened. He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.

  Veronica Roth

  Sweet, Strong, Dark

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• Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.

  Michelle Sagara

  Stupid, Being Stupid

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Chronicles of Elantra bundle: Cast in Shadow\Cast in Courtlight\Cast in Secret”, p.685, LUNA

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• The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap if you're smart. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever put in a trap. Angel Bob: And what would that be, sir? The Doctor: Me. [fires]

  Steven Moffat

  Angel, Gun, Fire

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• Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Stupid, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “First Meetings: In Ender's Universe”, p.88, Macmillan

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• When I look at him, I don't see the cowardly young man who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews, and i don't hear the excuses he gave afterward. When I look at him, I see the boy who held my hand in the hospital when our mother broke her wrist and told me it would be all right. I see the brother who told me to make my own choices, the night before the Choosing Ceremony. I think of all the remarkable things he is--smart and enthusiastic and observant, quiet and earnest and kind.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Brother, Boys

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• The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

  Colin Davis

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  "Calm after the storm" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2002.

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• I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry--I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart--God knows what its name was--that tears started to my eyes.

  Charles Dickens

  Hurt, Sorry, Eye

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.375, Penguin

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• Obeying the rules might be smart, but it's not as nearly as much fun.

  Jill Shalvis

  Fun, Might, Obeying

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• David Foster Wallace: I think one of the insidious lessons about TV is the meta-lesson that you’re dumb. This is all you can do. This is easy, and you’re the sort of person who really just wants to sit in a chair and have it easy. When in fact there are parts of us, in a way, that are a lot more ambitious than that. And what we need, I think—and I’m not saying I’m the person to do it. But I think what we need is seriously engaged art, that can teach again that we’re smart. And that there’s stuff that TV and movies—although they’re great at certain things—cannot give us.

  David Lipsky

  Art, Thinking, Giving

  David Lipsky (2010). “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace”, p.71, Broadway Books

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• You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Challenges, Overcoming

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Feb 20, 2016

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• Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts, they’ll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things.

  Maurice Sendak

  Writing, Kids, Vapid

  "Maurice Sendak Sheds Moonlight on a Dark Tale". www.nytimes.com. 1993.

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