Clever Quotes - Page 15

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

You got to be smart you got to be clever and not get hit and when your able to do this your a fighter

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.

The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking

Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings and insights denied to the intellectual....It was precisely this kind of false belief that made stupid people so stupid. The truth was the clever people had infinitely more resources from which to make the leaps of connection that the world called intuition. What was 'intelligence' after all, but the ability to read into things?

Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it

Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

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.

One should not worry about the future, particularly if it hasn't happened yet.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

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!

It's harder to be kind than clever

There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.

Everything will be difficult, if there's no dream