Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Billings

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven

Judith Viorst

Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.

John Crowley

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.

Lou Reed

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

James M. Barrie

i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.

Jimi Hendrix

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.

Fred Wilson

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

Hilary Mantel

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.

Henry James

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

You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

John Mayer

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

John Major

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

John Lubbock

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

John le Carre

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

Jimmy Doolittle

Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.

Jim Rohn

Women have an incredible ability to pick up on emotional signals. For example, there are some wolves that are so clever they have learned to dress up like sheep. Man says, "Looks like a sheep. Talks like a sheep." Woman says, "Ain't no sheep!"

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.

Kary Mullis

A lot of people studying this disease are looking for clever little pathways they can piece together that will show how this works.

Witold Walczak

This clever tactical repackaging of creationism does not merit consideration. Intelligent design admits that it is not science unless science is redefined to include the supernatural.

Pat Robertson

They say a clever prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich if he gets the right grand jury, ... Was this sort of a setup?

This looks to be a clever and unexpected move by the Nasdaq exchange.

It was a lucky win. We weren't very clever in our play but we took our chance.

It's a clever way to try to get around the problem of giving investors information about individuals whose pay they wouldn't otherwise know about, without expanding the number to an unmanageable extent.

It's a clever move, they don't want to directly confront the regime.

Clement Attlee

I just love Chinese food. My favourite dish is number 27

Peter McWilliams

People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.

Kurt Vonnegut

How embarrassing to be human.

Vandana Shiva

Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.