Clumsily Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a…
— Martin Luther
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It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the…
— Ilya Ehrenburg
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Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase…
— Lawrence Durrell
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I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance…
— Robert Kennedy
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One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they…
— Stephanie Beacham
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Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would…
— Randolph Bourne
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Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation…
— Jose Saramago
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Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There…
— Virginia Woolf
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The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one;…
— Mark Twain
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All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then…
— Chelsea Handler
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Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love, but beyond that…
— John Wyndham
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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily…
— William Faulkner
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To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a…
— Wendell Berry
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I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they…
— H. L. Mencken
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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of…
— Francis Bacon Sr
Who Wrote These Clumsily Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Clumsily Quotes as follows: