Quotes & Sayings About Cleverness And Smarts

Social structures, types and attitudes are coins that do not readily melt. Once they are formed they persist, possibly for centuries, and since different structures and types display different degrees of this ability to survive, we almost always find that actual group and national behavior more or less departs from what we should expect it to be if we tried to infer it from the dominant forms of the productive process. — Joseph Alois Schumpeter

The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself. — Aldous Huxley

Now, when a vampire goes underground as we call it - when he ceases to drink blood and he just lies in the earth - he soon becomes too weak to resurrect himself, and what follows is a dream state. — Anne Rice

You don't know how to converse. Sometimes I think the spaces between the
stars are filled with your silence. — Sherry Thomas

People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life. — John Walsh

I- I love you like a love song, baby
And I keep hittin' repeat-peat-peat-peat — Selena Gomez

Around mid-life everyone goes maniac a little bit. — Tom Berenger

I nearly died with the peritonitis, but not the heart attack. The heart attack was like bad indigestion and two weeks later I was back in shouting at people. I was shouting at people during the heart attack. I had it for three days without realising what it was. — Nigel Lythgoe

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom. — Mark Nepo

Lyon are the same away from home as they are at home, they have the same way of playing. — Carlo Ancelotti

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day. — Gale Forman

My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Adversity bonds people more often than it breaks them. — Adam Braun

We played all of the songs on the first Johnny Winter AND every day before we recorded them, so that when we got in the studio, it was totally easy, as we knew exactly what we wanted to do. — Rick Derringer