Wendy E. Long (Wendy Elizabeth Long) Quotes
Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
-
As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.
-
That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
-
Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
-
I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
-
Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
-
You are just your intelligence.
-
I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
-
The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
-
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
-
All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.
-
There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
-
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
-
I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.
-
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
-
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
-
They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.
-
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
-
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
-
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
-
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
-
Me and my mom are extremely, extremely close.
-
Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.
