#intelligence

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy. ↗

— Nicole Appleton

#humor #i #intelligence #sense #sense of humor

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#beside #bodies #children #creation #elemental

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#corporate #corporate world #everyone #i #intelligence

At Childerstown High School and at college he had never led his class nor taken prizes; but, without being aware that he did, he really blamed this on his failure to work hard, or any harder than he needed to. . . . What he did not know, what Paul Bonbright, among others, showed him, was that those abilities of his that got him, without distinction but also without much exertion, through all previous lessons and examinations, were not first rate abilities handicapped by laziness, but second rate, by no degree of effort or assiduity to be made the equal of abilities like Bonbright's. ↗

— James Gould Cozzens

#equality

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. ↗

— John Calvin

#confidence #intelligence #our #out #own

We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#been #capabilities #combined #future #going

Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America. ↗

— Chris Cannon

#best #deserve #help #intelligence #men

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London. ↗

— John le Carre

#intelligence #james #knew #little #london

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#find #her #intuition #reasons #support

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#advertising agency #agency #chess #elaborate #human