Quotes about clever
clever drunk ugly
Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober. Winston Churchill
clever tests firsts
Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you? Trenton Lee Stewart
clever self law
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Yann Martel
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I now fully understand that it was a clever ruse by the Iraqi government to enact an elaborate scheme of deception.
clever conscience empty man modern moral silence thinks
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. Michael Leunig
clever heard market mobile powerful sorted tv
I have not heard anything definite. But something will have to be sorted out. We know the market is there for mobile TV and DVH-B is a very clever and powerful system.
clever concept crafting developers experience players
The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible. Warren Spector
clever parent
I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever. Mikhail Prokhorov
clever being-in-love men
People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus. Marcel Proust
clever today should
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. Jose Maria Aznar
clever silly census-bureau
The actual assertion that the Census Bureau could behave in such a way as to tilt things one way or the other way in the partisan sense, is, on the face of it, a silly charge. It's the same Census Bureau that's considered to be incompetent by some people, and then some of the same people are saying that this incompetent agency is so clever and so Machiavellian that it can design a census for partisan reasons. Kenneth Prewitt
clever real thinking
There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to. Jonathan Safran Foer
clever afternoon evening
To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening. Hector Hugh Munro
clever kind benign
To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success Malcolm Mclaren
clever today tomorrow
Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today. John C. Maxwell
clever style doubt
Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it. Jon Landau
clever love-you men
Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will. Jojo Moyes
clever unfair beneficial
All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us Luc de Clapiers
clever men trying
A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different. John Buchan
clever half men mr none oxford
The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr Toad.
clever fear halloween
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer
clever believe policy
Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free. Napoleon Bonaparte
clever opportunity men
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
clever addiction ironic
We tend to get what we expect. Norman Vincent Peale
clever creep determined height people question rules system watch
These people should have been put under a watch list; to let them creep back into procurement is the height of irresponsibility. Reform, in the end, is really a question of people and you can put in all the rules and regulations you want, but clever determined people who know the system well will find a way of getting around the rules. Edward Luck
clever
Once more they showed how clever they are. Robert Taylor
clever few games given pennant players race swing
They can take the players they're given and by deploying them in a clever way, swing the pennant race not by 10-20 games but by a few games.
clever decide depressing narrator pick seems setting stories voice
It seems I'm kind of a depressing person, ... Life's been rough. No really, I don't pick the stories that come to me. I'm not clever enough to decide where the story is going to go. The voice of the narrator comes to me and then the setting comes and then the time.
clever drawing abstract
But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever. John Green
clever writing people
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire Kim Basinger
clever way
Everybody is clever, just in their own ways Matt Groening
clever work-out something-new
Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new. Mark Haddon
clever thinking phrases
You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile." "You think my smile is beguiling? Julia Quinn