Mischevious Quotes & Sayings

The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes. — George Herbert

Millions of women rose up, said G. K. Chesterton, to declare that they would no longer be dictated to, and promptly became stenographers. — Anthony Esolen

My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings. — Rick Smolan

Dichotomies are most mischevious when they arbitrarily separate parts of a highly interrelated and complex system. — David W. Ehrenfeld

Most people think of leaders as being these outgoing, very visible, and charismatic people, which I find to be a very narrow perception. The key challenge for managers today is to get beyond the surface of your colleagues. You might just find that you have introverts embedded within your organization who are natural-born leaders. — Douglas Conant

We love what we should scorn if we were wiser. — Marie De France

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that? — Kazuo Ishiguro

He answered with the sudden flash of a grin, so much less seductive than his smile. So much more dangerous. He was real when he grinned. — Eileen Wilks

A block or two west of the new City of Man in Turtle Bay there is an old willow tree that presides over an interior garden. It is a battered tree, long suffering and much climbed, held together by strands of wire but beloved of those who know it. In a way it symbolizes the city: life under difficulties, growth against odds, sap-rise in the midst of concrete, and the steady reaching for the sun. Whenever I look at it nowadays, and feel the cold shadow of the planes, I think: "This must be saved, this particular thing, this very tree." If it were to go, all would go
this city, this mischevious and marvelous monument which not to look upon would be like death. — E.B. White

The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species. — Henry James