Shrewed Quotes & Sayings

We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door. — Robin S. Sharma

Any manager will tell you that they would rather win one and lose two than to draw three, because you get more points — Les Ferdinand

Before I could do any sleuthing, though, I still had the question of Uncle Louis. — Christy Fifield

Many people have told me that I should quit, but I have not yet finished proving them wrong. — Wes Fesler

The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel
Saving Private Ryan — Tom Hanks

My prose has no individual style as such, but is rather an unspoken and still unexpressed groping toward the personal. There is something there that wants to come out; something of my own that must be said. Yet, perhaps, words are not the way for me. — Neal Cassady

For the last century, almost all top political appointments [on the planet Earth] had been made by random computer selection from the pool of individuals who had the necessary qualifications. It had taken the human race several thousand years to realize that there were some jobs that should never be given to the people who volunteered for them, especially if they showed too much enthusiasm. As one shrewed political commentator had remarked: We want a President who has to be carried screaming and kicking into the White House - but will then do the best job he possibly can, so that he'll get time off for good behavior. — Arthur C. Clarke

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. — Henry David Thoreau

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth. — James Harvey Robinson