Quotes about clever
clever lust skins
A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin. Elizabeth Hurley
clever war soldier
War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics. Alberto Moravia
clever rise-to-power people
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. Adolf Hitler
clever sibling struggle
From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility. From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful. From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise. And sometimes, from their envy of each other's special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve. Adele Faber
clever clues death gruesome packaged playing pleasure puzzle reduced revealed solution
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules. A. S. Byatt
clever costs created data earnings grow labor largely last market profits rather recovery rise sharp stock strong three unit wage year
Traditionally, the stock market does well in the first year of recovery because you have a sharp rise in productivity and moderating wage demands, so unit labor costs plunge and profits grow rapidly. All the data tell you that is happening. What's weighing on the market is the recognition that the last three years' earnings were largely created by clever accountants rather than strong fundamentals.
clever good history lessons
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant
clever crazy desire
Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre. Ann Coulter
clever smart stupid
I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever. Andrea Bocelli
clever people want
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. A. N. Wilson
clever silly book
Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this. A. A. Milne
clever thinking forever
But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.
clever thinking two
When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.
clever fire honor
[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak. Aeschylus
clever undoing cleverness
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing. Agatha Christie
clever devil spirit
When you educate without the Holy Spirit, you only get a clever devil. Adrian Rogers
clever bores
There is no bore like a clever bore. Samuel Butler
clever men law
The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot be abandoned to the discretion of some men, however competent and clever they may deem themselves. It is necessary to restrict its application. This is the task of the laws. Ludwig von Mises
clever hope merger minister prime shows understood
It is a very clever merger and we hope it will go on. The prime minister has understood that he had to move. It shows that he understands the world in a very clever way.
clever computer mind small work
It is not enough to be strong, you must work with your mind and be a clever person who can calculate. It's like having a small computer in your head. Sergei Bubka
clever dark deep lift lord please seek tricks
Please be kind and compassionate, O Lord of my life; I am helpless, and I seek Your Sanctuary, God. Please, give me Your Hand, and lift me up, out of the deep dark pit. I have no clever tricks at all.
clever emotional guitar
It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'
cleverness conceal great
It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
clever cleverness create jason kyle midfield
Kyle was very clever tonight, and he did some things with Jason at midfield to create some opportunities on goal.
clever half men none
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. Kenneth Grahame
clever school college
I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college. Anthony Hopkins
clever ideas trying
I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion. Daniel Kahneman
clever lying men
And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses of England with metal thorns, beware! but still more brave and still more rare the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools and rose-briars to strangle the machine. D. H. Lawrence
clever creativity people
Having money hasn't changed me. If anything it's made my life worse. People come up to you who knew you before you were famous and who didn't come up to you before. I'm a clever designer. I can do what the client wants. But I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again. Alexander McQueen
clever men challenges
I really like clever men who challenge you. E. L. James
clever men cases
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned Duke of Wellington
clever humility pride
Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive. Dalai Lama
clever meditation-practice years
If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation