Outsmarted Quotes & Sayings

Don't be afraid of being yourself, but be afraid of being somebody else. — Ben Tolosa

Every day for the last three years, she had thought she deserved to die. She still didn't want to. She wanted to live with every filthy desperate scrap of her heart — Rosamund Hodge

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one. — Andrew Carnegie

She vanished over the side of the chapel. Kaz stood there, staring at the place she'd been only seconds before. She'd tricked him. The decent, honest, pious Wraith had outsmarted him. He turned to look back at the long expanse of roof he was going to have to traverse to get back to the boat. "Curse you and all your Saints," he said to no one at all, then realized he was smiling. — Leigh Bardugo

We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread. — Peter Matthiessen

Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick. — Glen Duncan

The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living! — Adam Leipzig

Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels. The company-city subgenre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped "the company." I've never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company. In real life, that's the way it will be. That's the way it always is. — Octavia E. Butler

In his pocket, the mobile phone beeped and wriggled. They'd said on the radio that the entirety of human knowledge was available on these handsets, that smartphones had outsmarted their owners. But, for now, he was in control, and the nagging gadget had to wait. He took only a glance at the little screen, enough to see that the text came from Tooly. He pocketed the phone and finished tidying up the Honesty Barrel. Soon he'd read her message and he would know. But not yet. That present had not arrived yet. This one lingered. — Tom Rachman

So many times I've made myself stupid with the fear of being outsmarted. — James Richardson

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard. — Karl Barth

Grief is nothing but a painful waiting, a horrible patience. Grief cannot be torn down or scaled or overcome or outsmarted. It can only be outlasted. Survival is surrender to the brick wall. There — Glennon Doyle Melton

Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is. — Catherine Taylor

Most hedge funds fail: 90 percent of all the hedge funds that have ever existed have closed or gone broke. — John Lanchester

Think, guys. What was strange about the story Uncle Goerge told us?"
"That a woman outsmarted the men", Mike said. For which he received a scowl that did a thunderstorm justice. — Sigmund Brouwer

I remember one play [when I was kid] was about this murderous mad scientist, and my whole part was to be the guy who got thrown into a vat of acid as the curtain went up. I was very pissed off at these older kids; they'd outsmarted me. — Paul Reubens

Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it. — Kate Morton

Will this be my life forevermore? Careful tea parties and the quiet fear that I don't belong, that I'm a fraud? I held magic in my hands! I tasted freedom in a land where summer doesn't end. I outsmarted the Rakshana with a boy whose kiss I still feel somehow. was it all for naught? I'd rather not have known any of it than have it snatched away after a taste. — Libba Bray

The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents. — Mahatma Gandhi