I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Piety /pi•e•ty/ (modern definition) 1. When you use Christ’s teachings to put someone in their place out of anger and self-righteousness. It… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not… — Motsi Mabuse Copy Share Image
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning.… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will… — Laozi Copy Share Image
In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
As we get older, we become more political in terms of survival. We realize a certain amount of cunning is necessary and… — Pernell Roberts Copy Share Image
“Be blessed with an honest character, true heart. Wise, dignified people who value honesty stir away from dishonest, corrupt schemers. Great reward… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
Our politicians are stupid.And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Death Star is just full of British actors opening doors and going,Oh... I... oh... What is it Lieutenant Sebastian? It's just… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them.… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
