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clever dazzling figures frugal happy million paid
We haven't paid 25 million and 10 million and all the dazzling figures you see being banded about for strikers at the moment. We've been very clever and frugal in our dealings. He's not cheap, he's not for nothing, but we're very happy with the deal. Bobby Robson
clever work stupid
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. Kin Hubbard
clever two answering-questions
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. John Ruskin
clever ignorance men
There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at. Mark Lawrence
clever book tough-questions
Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not having it. They didn't realize what this book succinctly displays: that the President has something far more important-CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information, and make discerning decisions. Marvin Olasky
clever philosophy loss
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly. Oscar Wilde
clever people sick
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.
clever mean hypocrisy
How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!
clever weakness charm
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
lying long black
A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box. Edsger Dijkstra
lying ocean sleep
Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep! Allen Tate
lying tales betray
A false tale often betrays itself. Aesop
lying men justice
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me. Abraham Lincoln
lying sin
Lying is the greatest of all sins. Alfred Nobel
lying civilization waiting
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface . Aldous Huxley
lying ignorance order
We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
lying hands brain
To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. Albert Pike
lying thinking people
I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way. Ali MacGraw
people save threatened
Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild. Andy Johnson
people though
Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy. Lois Lowry
people sucked wealth
Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia, Robin Cook
people pursue socially societies tech
Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations. Nick Hanauer
people portray written
Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much. Harvey Pekar
people poor poverty
Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people Don Herold
people perhaps remember voice
Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.
people perhaps
Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,' Jeb Bush
people position
Quarterback is a position that people try to put too many things into it,