Clever Quotes
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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 -
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
Jane Austen
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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel -
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane Austen -
I don't know, but I do think that everyone has a story to tell. The question is, can they find the voice and the confidence to tell it? We lack the encouragement as young people to believe this; we very often think that writing is for clever people, which it isn't.
Michael Morpurgo -
My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.
Nico Rosberg -
The gap between a dumb and a clever person may appear large from an anthropocentric perspective, yet in a less parochial view the two have nearly indistinguishable minds.
Nick Bostrom -
I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.
Paul Weller Incognito
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There is nothing Clever about not being Happy.
Arnaud Desjardins -
As a model, we come in the room, and we are casted just on our looks. I think I'm funny; I think I'm clever. But in the end, they're picking me for my cheekbones or if I'm tall enough.
Coco Rocha -
Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.
Thomas Sowell -
let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
Rumi -
It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.
Thomas Sowell -
Throughout history, people have enjoyed playing both silly and clever games.
Erno Rubik
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You can't undo yesterday, you can work on today, tomorrow, you will wonder how you screwed up 2 days in a row
Eddie Long -
They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.
Wilt Chamberlain -
If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.
Mikhail Prokhorov -
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.
George Pell
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He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.
Madeleine de Souvre -
A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.
Euripides -
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
That's typical Gabrielle, ... Marc has a very clever plan for this pregnancy. It's going to turn her world upside down.
Eva Longoria