Clever Quotes

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.

What gets measured gets managed.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Modern times are dominated by Satan and will be more so in the future. The conflict with hell cannot be engaged by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. However, assumed into Heaven, the Mother of God now requires our cooperation. She seeks souls who will consecrate themselves entirely to her, who will become in her hands effective instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spreading of God's kingdom upon earth.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Christianity is not a matter of persuading people of particular ideas, but of inviting them to share in the greatness of Christ. So pray that I may never fall into the trap of impressing people with clever speech, but instead I may learn to speak with humility, desiring only to impress people with Christ himself.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

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.

The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories and laws do not bring matter/energy into existence. The view that they nevertheless somehow have the capacity seems a rather desperate refuge...from the alternative possibility...Trying to avoid the clear evidence for the existence of a divine intelligence behind nature, atheist scientists are forced to ascribe creative powers to less and less credible candidates like mass/energy and the laws of nature.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

When you get hit that's when you've got to be calm. A professional fighter has to learn how to hit and not get hit, and at the same time be exciting. That's what professional boxing is about. You've got to be clever, you've got to be smart, and not get hit, and when you're able to do this, you're a fighter.

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.

The conflict with Hell cannot be maintained by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan.

Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

There is only one difference between a madman and me.
The madman thinks he is sane.
I know I am mad.

Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

Everything I do is inspired by my early life”, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in her life for many reasons, ‘Maman’ symbolizes her mother; “The friend, because my best friend was my mother and she was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and as useful as a spider.

I don't have Romário's technique, [Marc] Overmars' pace or [Patrick] Kluivert's strength. But I work harder than the others. I'm like the student who is not as clever, but revises for his exams and does OK in the end.

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

Take from a man his reputation for probity,
and the more shrewd and clever he is,
the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.