Quotes about clever
clever longing shows
To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position. Elizabeth Gilbert
clever children knowing
Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour all the inarticulate perceptions, all the knowings and unknowings she felt, which, though he couldn't understand them really, he would receive reverently, and out of him would come then the advice, the warnings, the clever decisions she could never have made. John Crowley
clever book communication
If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes. As Dr. Douglas Brinley has observed, 'Without theological perspectives, secular exercises designed to improve our relationship and our communication skills (the common tools of counselors and marriage books) will never work any permanent change in one's heart: they simply develop more clever and skilled fighters! John Bytheway
clever lying expression
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime. Lou Reed
clever feelings matter
You should read Wodehouse when you're well and when you're poorly;when you're travelling, and when you're not;when you're feeling clever, and when you're feeling utterly dim. Wodehouse always lifts your spirits,no matter how high they happen to be already. Lynne Truss
clever self guilt
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. Jonathan Kozol
clever viruses host
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it. James Lovelock
clever knows
i know i'm not clever but i'm always right. James M. Barrie
clever reality mirrors
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see. Jimi Hendrix
clever garden long
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden. Eric Morecambe
clever years law
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. John Carmack
clever thinking would-be
Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed. Geoff Mulgan
clever thinking past
I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all. Garrison Keillor
clever men shifting
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. Livy
clever envy blind
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
clever animal unique
The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters of the wicked nature of their own species, and recognize ferally the distinctions of the hated human species. Nonetheless, obsessively dedicated to being such animals, they can not [sic] assimilate those qualities unique to true human beings. Lyndon LaRouche
clever motivation inspiration
"All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories. Lyndon B. Johnson
clever people dangerous
The most dangerous people are always clever, compelling, and charismatic. Malcolm McDowell
clever thinking sight
Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight. Gene Wolfe
clever games adoption
Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook. Fred Wilson
clever dark breathing
Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you. Haruki Murakami
clever intelligent people
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
clever drinking intelligent
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
clever reading reality
The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.
clever honesty ignorance
When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list - somewhere between politicians and car salesmen. Generally, insurers are seen as clever hucksters who prey on insecurity and ignorance to sell people what they don't need at prices they shouldn't have to pay. James Surowiecki
clever learning reality
There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life. Hermann Hesse
clever dirty here-and-there
A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
clever gazelles mood
The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood. Heinrich Heine
clever mistake book
I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so that she would not have to undergo them for herself. But, how are our certainties forged, except by the sweat and tears of other people? If your parents don't teach you how to live; you learn it from books; and clever people watch you learn from your mistakes. Hilary Mantel
clever men wings
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows. Henry Ward Beecher
clever thinking doctors
do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever. Henry James
clever
You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
clever truth believe
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.