Strategems Quotes & Sayings

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions. — Peter Ustinov

Who's that knocking on my grave and will not let me sleep, a year has one — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source. — Laozi

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic. — Bill Watterson

I'm interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they're scary, and they're important to think about. I'm also wary about the fact that if you don't proceed with caution and understand what you're doing, you understand these things are realities that you're dealing with, they're real things. — Bo Burnham

The Man who has not Music in his Soul, Or is not touch'd with Concord of sweet Sounds, Is fit for Treasons, Strategems, and Spoils, The Motions of his Mind are dull as Night, And his Affections dark as Erebus: Let no such Man be trusted.17 Copying a passage — Kevin J. Hayes

They make their pride," he said, "in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little." When asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered, "The nearest. — Henry David Thoreau

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy. — A. N. Wilson

Works of genius are the first things in the world. — John Keats

To do what you love and are passionate about is a dream come true, My life is consumed by music and entertainment - and it's the best life I could ever hope for. — Blake Lewis

Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's strategems against prayer are three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer. — William Gurnall

The art of the writer, like that of the player, is attained by slow degrees. The power of distinguishing and discriminating comick characters, or of filling tragedy with poetical images, must be the gift of nature, which no instruction nor labour can supply; but the art of dramatick disposition, the contexture of the scenes, the involution of the plot, the expedients of suspension, and the strategems of surprise, are to be learned by practice. — Samuel Johnson

Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos. — Peter Greenaway

He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett. — Jim Leyland