Quotes of: Clever-man Keyword

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

Contemplative Prayer

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.

The Children of the Sky

Many contemporary composers have been building walls of sounds following their own clever devices. But then, who lives inside those rooms?

Confronting Silence: Selected Writings

Richness and fat does need, In logic clever fine deeds, But paunches never do breed, Fine thoughts or sublime seeds. [45] - 2

Eddies of Life

You’re a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half.

The Ghost And Its Shadow

You’re a grown woman, and a clever one. I believe you understand the situation. And I’m going to trust that you know your own mind.

Beauty and the Blacksmith

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there.

Clockwork Angel

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

The Hippopotamus Pool

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

The Happy Prince and Other Stories

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

The Irrational Knot

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.

Relentless

To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.

Reamde

Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.

Rooftop Soliloquy

We can give her a lift, can't we?' He said. 'Mum always gives people lifts. She says it's good karma'.

Not Funny Not Clever

Look for Joy: that's God's echo, and his footprint. Happiness . . . happiness and wittiness and cleverness do not count for much when the darkness falls. Joy is tougher.

Nobody's Son

We don’t need to take off our pants and stand naked in the snow to experience the harshness of life; a clever person even can feel it with a bottle of wine.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Really?" "No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember." "Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic.

The Screaming Staircase

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V. And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

John Lennon

When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.

Olivier Megaton