#cunning

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. ↗

— Cynthia Ozick

#choose #cunning #never #obvious #saying

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. ↗

— Merce Cunningham

#dance #inspirational #merce-cunningham #inspirational

Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods. ↗

— Jon Voight

#book #cunning #fool #get #i

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#concealing #cunning #defects #discovering #other

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

Teddy risked a look backward and nodded as he handed Henry his hat. The two men shook hands and then walked past each other Teddy moving in the direction of Henry's room and Henry the hat pulled down over his face toward the Cutting carriage that was waiting by the curb. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#deceit #men

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? ↗

— Pablo Casals

#cunning #heart #his #indeed #machines

Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they're as cunning as snakes. They can't lie, but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. They'll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you—with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place." He sighed. "They're not really about helping people. More about harm disguised as help. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#faerie #help-harm #hurt #jace-wayland #lie

The greatest cunning is to have none at all. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#greatest #none

When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same. ↗

— Henry Winkler

#concerns #cunningham #down #drank #earth