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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. Oscar Wilde
clever mean hypocrisy
How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say! Oscar Wilde
clever weakness charm
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. Oscar Wilde
self play feelings
The whole body-mind thing comes into play, when you are feeling that self-doubt and your body is not going to help you if you're not paying attention. Your body's going to go with the self-doubt and make you feel worse, so by making the adjustments - pulling your shoulders back, standing up straight, walking in a more sort of expansive way - all sorts of little things will help pull you out of that self-doubt. Amy Cuddy
self different ready
I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens. Angel Olsen
self yes-and-no debate
The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. Anatole Broyard
self voice boredom
I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self. Anais Nin
self culture tasks
We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks. Anais Nin
self cities needs
One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery. Anais Nin
self should
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another. Anais Nin
self suffering causes
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes. Anais Nin
self indulge-in imagination
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying. Anais Nin
disease sexuality register
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Susan Sontag
disease enemy fire happiness spiritual
There is no disease (so destructive) as lust; no enemy like infatuation; no fire like wrath; and no happiness like spiritual knowledge. Chanakya
disease fact five four tendency west
There's always a tendency to get comfortable with the fact that this disease is out there, especially if you live in a place where you've had West Nile for four or five years and never been infected. John Roehrig