#lever

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. ↗

— Angela Carter

#confidence #experience #female #human #human experience

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#clever #existing #nine-tenths #nonsense

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ↗

— Will Durant

#always #clever #good #good thing #history

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan. ↗

— Bob Filner

#beijing #chinese #chinese government #coming #cross

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#boy #clever #form #head #i

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#devil #education #make #man #more

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#clever #his #man #questions #tell

It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#america #attachment #east #eastern #four

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me. ↗

— John Mayer

#clever #completely #forgot #i #i love

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st! ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#always #clever #everything #first #five