Quotes about wise
wise motivation inspiration
the shell must break before the bird can fly. Alfred Lord Tennyson
wise wisdom thinking
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. Alfred Austin
wise witty thinking
Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.
wise presidential welfare
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests. Andrew Johnson
wise blow wind
Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind -- poom! -- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen. Amy Tan
wise eye home
One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home on it. I sold three years after I completed the building and more than doubled my money. I like Richmond and always have my eyes open for other properties in the area. Anthea Turner
wise brother wine
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers. Anthony Burgess
wise home challenges
Working from home is so, so hard because I want to be present for them and yet there's so much to do work-wise. That's the biggest challenge for me. Andy Serkis
wise decision vision
Personal Vision is often the catalyst for wise decisions. Andy Stanley
wise ignorance use
Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.
wise
We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time. Andrew O'Hagan
wise father thieves
They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father. Andre Braugher
wise art nature
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. Andre Breton
wise men wonder
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh. Andre Gide
wise past degrees
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
wise kindness helping-others
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
wise wisdom men
The wise man is astonished by anything.
wise goes-on walks
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks. Anatole France
wise children pride
Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves me (having realized that nobody will ever love me in that overabundant, overexpressive, overthoughtful, overhuman way I love people), and so I will wait for him. So I ask taxi driver to drop me at the Galeries Lafayette, where I begin to look for a new hat and to shop for Christmas. Pride? I don't know. A kind of wise retreat. I need people too much. So I bury my gigantic defect, my overflow of love, under trivialities, like a child. I amuse myself with a new hat. Anais Nin
wise love-you believe
Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the other, but I should rather choose to have my eyes burnt in their sockets than to have been born without. Anne Fortier
wise hope children
Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone. Anne Frank
wise father thinking
My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me. Anjelica Huston
wise kings sleep
I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. they say it closely resembles death. Andrei Tarkovsky
wise men talking
Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights. Chuck Palahniuk
wise mother military
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly. Chuck D.
wise farewell thinking
After a pause, he asked, 'What do you think of Nasuada's plans?' 'Mmm...she's doomed! You're doomed! They're all doomed!'She cackled, doubling over, then straightened abruptly. 'notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very wise of me.' She lifted the basket again, setting it on one hip. 'I supposed I won't see you for a while, so farewell, best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!' And with a cheery wink, she strolled off, leaving Eragon blinking and nonplussed. Christopher Paolini
wise cabbage matter
Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.
wise littles belief
Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.
wise wisdom thinking
Wise? No, I simply learned to think.
wise manly
More childish valorous than manly wise. Christopher Marlowe
wise dog dark
Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard. Christopher Morley
wise spiritual evil
There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious. Anne Bradstreet
wise race charity
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. Andrew Carnegie