Quotes About Outwitting

#1. Outwitting children isn't difficult, but it takes commitment and energy.

Bijou Hunter

#2. You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something; it's the aeroplane you've hit ... normally it was more of a game if you like, you were outwitting and shooting down another aircraft, you were simply hitting metal.

Peter Malam Brothers

#3. Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

Simone De Beauvoir

#4. Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

Bill Bryson

#5. A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but ... ' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her.

Walter Kirn

#6. Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

Lennox Lewis

#7. They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.

Kenneth Roberts

#8. The U.S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and efficient operation in serving their customers and outwitting their competitors.

Newton Lee

#9. One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor
outwitting the market.

John Allen Paulos

#10. Each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

Lucy Freeman

#11. Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life.
Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death.
Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.

Chris Boucher

#12. Persistence to fight for what you want is what separates those who win and those who don't.

Tony Curl

#13. The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.

Jack Dorsey

#14. I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us as a culture. I think it does have to do with everyone's total global embrace of technology.

Lee Smith

#15. Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.

Mark Twain

#16. Whenever I start thinking about death, it always cheers me up to think about my funeral and my tombstone (which, by the way, will say "Here lies Harlan Sturr. Please don't pee on him.")

Adam Selzer

#17. Natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society.

Rachel Carson

#18. Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

Henry George Bohn

#19. Not because of my words - those are cheap and untrustworthy. But because of my actions, which are expensive and trustworthy.

Jon Acuff

#20. In a long life there are thirty or thirty-five thousand days to be got through, but only a few dozen that really matter, Big Days when Something Momentous Happens. The rest - the vast majority, tens of thousands of days - are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous.

William Landay

#21. Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

William Barclay

#22. We're all creatures of light and darkness. Embracing your darkness won't kill the light. Goodness is stronger than that.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#23. Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

Denis Waitley

#24. Life is long. But it goes fast.

Roger Waters