Quotes about clever
cleverness
O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.
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My guess is they want to sell high- definition discs. You want to get the high-definition monitor owners drooling. It's clever marketing.
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My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time. Robert Harris
clever stupid party
Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks. Elizabeth Bowen
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Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present. Deepak Chopra
clever recovery people
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. David Bowie
clever bones conjuring
I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones
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There are only two things needed to maintain celebrity: Being clever enough to ensure that nothing true is ever written about you, and being lucky enough to only have the right people write it.
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I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions. Karl Schroeder
clever fall feet praise
O my mind, praise the Creator. Give up all your clever tricks, and fall at the Feet of the Guru.
cleverness exactly knows smart
She made me feel so uncomfortable because she's very clever, very smart player. She knows exactly where to put the ball. It's like I had no rhythm.
clever men fake
However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake. Brandon Sanderson
clever world fists
Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)
clever book goats
If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many books.
clever planning assuming
The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.
clever ideas scrutiny
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. Barbara Mertz
clever men genius
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
clever humility skulls
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. Edsger Dijkstra
clever lying people
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence. Alexis de Tocqueville
clever speeches takes time work
Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time. Elaine Stritch
clever good history lessons
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant
clever bores
There is no bore like a clever bore. Samuel Butler
clever war soldier
War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics. Alberto Moravia
clever rise-to-power people
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. Adolf Hitler
clever sibling struggle
From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility. From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful. From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise. And sometimes, from their envy of each other's special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve. Adele Faber
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules. A. S. Byatt
clever people want
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. A. N. Wilson
clever silly book
Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this. A. A. Milne
clever thinking forever
But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.
clever thinking two
When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.
clever fire honor
[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak. Aeschylus
clever undoing cleverness
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing. Agatha Christie
clever devil spirit
When you educate without the Holy Spirit, you only get a clever devil. Adrian Rogers