Shrewdest Quotes

#1. The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

Confucius

#2. Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.

Leigh Bardugo

#3. Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.

Abby Wambach

#4. Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.

Walter Lippmann

#5. One after the other, there came a series of incidents so curious and so inexplicable that the very shrewdest people began to feel uneasy.

Gaston Leroux

#6. In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.

Dorothea Brande

#7. I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

Al Franken

#8. We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing.

James Turrell

#9. She's the kind of person who makes you feel drunk just by being around her, like suddenly the world's edges are dulled and all of the colors are spinning together.

Lauren Oliver

#10. Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

Lewis Thomas

#11. Muthuhfuckin' muthuhfucker! I oughta come over there kick your ass myself, worryin'me like this? I got your back homes! I got your back!

Robert Crais

#12. Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.

Lewis Thomas

#13. Love, you are the dark cut into memory.
Small, distant, as the sparrow's eye.

Brenda Sieczkowski

#14. In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

Eric Ambler

#15. George W. Bush committed impeachable offenses in waging war in Iraq.

Stan Goff

#16. My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.

Renee Fleming

#17. It is our trust in God which brings us through the most difficult times of our lives, so that we too, can see His glory. And rest assured, although He may not show up when you think He should . . . He will show up, and it will be right on time!

Cherie Hill

#18. Hell, everyone's nice until some kind of hard choice is put in front of them.
Coronado: Stories

Dennis Lehane

#19. We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

Zygmunt Bauman

#20. Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

Leo Tolstoy

#21. Along the road you travel, may the miles be a thousand times more lovely than lonely.

Douglas Pagels

#22. Your shrewdest enemies will try to befriend you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

C.S. Lewis