Quotes and Sayings about Cunning
"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Men, Cunning, Hurt, Nothing, State)
"Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock."
- Francis Beaumont
(Related: Cunning, Envy)
"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."
- William Blake
(Related: Courage, Cunning)
"I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father-son situation was written so movingly, I fell in love with the project."
- Tom Bosley
(Related: Love, Father, Mind, Project)
"The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Fear, Cruelty, Cunning, Fighting, Freedom, March)
"These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime."
- Giraldus Cambrensis
(Related: People, Being, Cunning, Intellect, Quick, Understanding)
"Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Greatness, Cunning, Infinite, Man, Unhappiness)
"Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?"
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Heart, Cunning, Machines, Man)
"The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others."
- Pierre Charron
(Related: Cunning)
"None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much."
- Lydia M. Child
(Related: Courage, Being, Bravery, Cunning, Devil, Intellect, Mind)
"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Wisdom, Knowledge, Cunning, Justice, May)
"While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea."
- Allan Cunningham
(Related: Oak, Sea)
"Get it out of your historic head."
- Imogen Cunningham
"I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Success, Talk)
"I don't resent anything."
- Imogen Cunningham
"I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Love, World)
"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Public)
"Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives."
- Imogen Cunningham
"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: First, Woman, Wrong)
"I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Science, America)
"I don't know what love means."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Love)
"My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Mind, Names)
"Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Living, Portraits)
"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Life, People, Questions, Silly)
"When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Names)
"Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: People, Gods)
"There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree."
- Imogen Cunningham
"Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Thought, People)
"When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: People, Job, Mind)
"It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: People, Disease, Silly)
"I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Man)
"I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Work, People, Being, Poor)
"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Men, Hollywood, Ugly)
"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Money, Desire, Portraits)
"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Life, World)
"I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Art, Father, Thought, School, Want)
"I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Years)
"I hate big models."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Hate)
"I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Talent, People, Photography, Teaching)
"I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: People, Gods)
"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Class, Students)
"You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Science, America)
"Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me."
- Kenny Cunningham
(Related: Business, Career, Football)
"He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general."
- Kenny Cunningham
(Related: Time, People, Public)
"I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland."
- Kenny Cunningham
(Related: Ireland)
"I became more confident within myself and matured as a person and become a little bit more opinionated - maybe the lads might say a little bit too opinionated for their liking but that is just a natural progression for a player."
- Kenny Cunningham
"I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference."
- Kenny Cunningham
(Related: Difference, Want)
"I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points."
- Kenny Cunningham
(Related: Years)
"I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams."
- Kenny Cunningham
(Related: Dreams)
"I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by."
- Kenny Cunningham
(Related: Thought, Football)
"I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul."
- Kenny Cunningham
"It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case."
- Kenny Cunningham
(Related: Will)
"I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing."
- Merce Cunningham
(Related: Students)
"My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day."
- Merce Cunningham
(Related: Dance, Class, Day, Open)
"The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair."
- Michael Cunningham
(Related: Despair, Difference, Trying)
"If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed."
- Michael Cunningham
(Related: Want)
"Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves."
- Michael Cunningham
(Related: People, Idea, Actors, Play, Talk)
"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."
- Don DeLillo
(Related: Nature, Work, Ideas, Cunning, Quiet, Silence)
"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
- Jean Genet
(Related: Beauty, Cunning, Deep)
"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Art, People, Cunning)
"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."
- A. E. Housman
(Related: American, Cunning, Innocence)
"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Life, Cunning, Fight, Personality, Self, Will)
"Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning."
- Mikhail Lermontov
(Related: Success, People, Cunning, Glory, Nothing)
"We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation."
- Joshua Micah Marshall
(Related: Legal, Money, Defense)
"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."
- Iris Murdoch
(Related: Art, Soul, Gods, Cunning)
"Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery."
- Ovid
(Related: Cunning, Difference, Knavery, Lying)
"In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better."
- Cynthia Ozick
(Related: Cunning, Obvious, Saying)
"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom."
- Plato
(Related: Wisdom, Cunning)
"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."
- Plato
(Related: Wisdom, Knowledge, Cunning, Justice)
"This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler."
- Titus Maccius Plautus
(Related: Cunning, Fault, First, Wine)
"Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Men, Cunning)
"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Cunning, Self)
"The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting."
- Arundhati Roy
(Related: Ability, America, Cunning, Fact, Fight, Fighting, Weapons)
"The greatest cunning is to have none at all."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Cunning)
"No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool."
- George Savile
(Related: Cunning, Fool, Knave, Man, Play, Weakness, Wit)
"Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends."
- Giorgos Seferis
(Related: Action, Cunning, Man, Pride, Will)
"It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men."
- Strom Thurmond
(Related: Government, Men, Knowledge, Cunning)
"The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user."
- John Tillotson
(Related: Art, Cunning, Deceit)
"I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning."
- Renee Vivien
(Related: Being, Cunning)
"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
(Related: Cunning, Fool)
"With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!"
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Art, Time, Heart, Care, Cunning, Passion, Skill, Years)
"That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many."
- Henry Winkler
(Related: Men, Women, Children, Talking)
"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
(Related: Earth, Parents)
"If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning."
- Peter York
(Related: Beauty, Genius, Cunning)