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Tag Name "Cleverly" (40)

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Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law obedience to the law is made a religion moral goodness and the law of the masters are fused into one and the same divinity. The historical hero of the schoolroom is the man who obeys the law, and defends it against rebels.
Peter Kropotkin
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Cleverly designed experiments are the key.
Carl Sagan
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Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa
Thomas Sankara
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Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.
Andrew Motion
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At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.
Tim Duncan
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Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been cleverly, cunningly, and consistently scuttled and rendered ineffectual by those castes and that class of people which has a stranglehold on the political process.
Arundhati Roy
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I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.
Tony Benn
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.
Carl Sagan
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Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.
William Allingham
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He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.
Chanakya
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If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't I'll just respond cleverly.
Donald Rumsfeld
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When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.
Eiji Yoshikawa
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Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.
Harvey Mackay
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It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from including the intellectual in their creative material way more than you would believe.
Lidia Yuknavitch
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I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.
Michelle Sagara
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The Hypotenuse has a square on, which is equal Pythagoras instructed, to the sum of the squares on the other two sides If a triangle is cleverly constructed.
Richard Digance
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Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!
Stanislaw Lem
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A person who speaks cleverly is witty one who asks questions is smart.
Terry Carr
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
Adam Sedgwick
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The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.
Thomas Sowell
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
Anton Chekhov
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There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.
Tim Robbins
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