#lever

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#chess #clever #course #eyes #felt

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare. ↗

— John Crowley

#clever #had #i #nightmare #producers

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. ↗

— Plato

#all things #bad #cleverness #evil #excessive

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#clever #never #option #our #policy

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#clever people #i #i think #people #poor

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fulcrum #given #good #good opinion #lever

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#dinner #down #i #ideas #sit

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life. ↗

— Eduardo Saverin

#come #help #how #i #into

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#attractive #clever #govern #long #men

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#down #enough #find #minister #prime