One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious…

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

— Lucy Freeman

That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that…

— David Wroblewski

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring, surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him. More than delivering strikes…

— Toshitsugu Takamatsu

Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find new ways…

— Pankaj Mishra

They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless…

— Kenneth Roberts

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you…

— Bill Bryson

...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill…

— Lawrence Kushner

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

— Lennox Lewis

The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction,…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

...Jesus did not advocate non-violence merely as a technique for outwitting the enemy, but as a just means of opposing the enemy in such…

— Walter Wink

You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something;…

— Peter Malam Brothers

Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common…

— Jim Holt

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

— Stephen King

“Fat Johnny reached down, and as he grasped the wallet, he farted loudly and screamed. With faint amusement the gunslinger realized he had mistaken…

— Stephen King