Quotes About Cunning

manifest themselves in this struggle as courage, humor, cunning, and fortitude. They have retroactive force and will constantly call in question every victory, past and present, of the rulers. As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which is rising in the sky of history. A historical materialist must be aware of this most inconspicuous of all transformations.

As Friedland had done and as Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and intimidate and distort reality with the power of his personality

he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and distort reality with the power of his personality.

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

he at no time thought himself out of the Black Douglas's reach, any more than the good Christian supposes himself out of reach of the wiles of the devil; while every new temptation, instead of confirming his hope, seems to announce that the immediate retreat of the Evil One will be followed by some new attack yet more cunningly devised.

Whenever I find myself somehow fooled into doing one of these talks, it's on the grounds that some confused soul thinks that I will talk about the digital world and the future. What always happens is that I rant for an unspecified length of time about obscure history and fringe beliefs. So you need to understand that you are now trapped in this room with me and I've already been paid. This is my cunning plan.

Krauthammer's razor (with apologies to Occam): In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

What matters? Lives of the good and the great, the innocence of dogs, the cunning of cats, the elegance of nature, the wonders of space, the perfectly thrown outfield assist, the difference between historical guilt and historical responsibility, homage and sacrilege in monumental architecture, fashions and follies and the finer uses of the F-word.

Man is either Viceroy or else he is an animal that claims special rights by virtue of its cunning and the devouring efficiency of teeth sharpened by technological instruments... But if he is Viceroy, then all decay and trouble in the created world that surrounds him is in some measure to be laid to his account

Did she believe in God? Yes and no. God is the cunning of all these boxes fitting inside each other, perhaps? More likely, God is just another box. Neither the tiniest one nor the biggest imaginable. There are boxes even God knows nothing of.

You're a trickster, Doctor, not a warrior.

You know how you shiver with fear at the idea of doing something extremely dangerous, but feel compelled to proceed? Falling for a Scorpio is just like that shudder of terrified excitement. The legendary magnetism of this sign is real. A Scorpion in love is erotically powerful, amazingly cunning, and totally dangerous. Scorpios are the stuff of romance-novel characters...

Roma ?mparatoru Elagabalus'un, 10.000 fare, 1000 k?r faresi ve 1000 gelincik aras?nda bir dövü? düzenledi?i söylenir. Söylemeye gerek yok, k?r faresi fareyi 'k?r'?p geçirdi, gelincik ikisinin de hakk?ndan geldi.

Maybe I was a fool to turn my back on him after his warnings, but the bad guys didn't warn you first. No, the truly wicked ones lured you in with kindness and then blindsided you with their mercilessness.

fortaleza y el ingenio (bi? y m?tis), representadas respectivamente por Aquiles y Ulises (u Odiseo);

Maquiavelo—, representados en la fuerza y la astucia.

Lo mejor para nosotros es / idear un plan perfecto, que mediante engaños o astucias / consiga lo que la fuerza no puede conseguir»).[7]

Truly that aspect of cunning is illustrious and far removed from all reproach, whose deeds are called by the Greek expression strategemata, because they can scarcely be suitably expressed by a (single Latin) term.

Y si bien la fuerza física puede ser derrotada por una fuerza superior, la m?tis puede derrotar a cualquier fuerza.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

Sterren realized he would have to rely on his wits -- and those wits were good enough that he knew he would rather not have to rely on them.

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday.

Not only am I intelligent," Genghis agreed, "but I'm also very smart.

Olaf smiled at them the way Uncle Monty's Mongolian Meansnake would smile when a white mouse was placed in its cage each day for dinner.