Sly Quotes (15 quotes)

“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: administration, airlines, bail, bail-out, banker, bankers, banking, banking-system, banks, best-leader, big-business, big-pharma, bipartisan, capitalism, censor, common-man, companies, confident, conservation, corporations, corrupt, corruption, country, democrat, diplomacy, diplomatic, diversity, divide, divides, division, doctor, doctors, education, educators, election, elections, employment, environment, environmental, environmentalism, environmentalist, equality, families, farmer, for-the-people, foreign-relations, freedom, freedom-of-speech, funding, good-leader, government, government-corruption, guide, health-care, heart-driven, homes, honest, honest-broker, human-condition, humble, identify, incentives, indentifies, integrity, intelligent, job, jobs, justice, lead, leader, leaders, leadership, leadership-characteristics, leadership-traits, libraries, library, lie, lies, lobbyist, losing, make-america-great-again, man-on-the-street, money, money-driven, mortage, mortages, nation, oil, oil-tycoon, peace, peacekeeper, peacemaker, people, pharma, pharmaceutical, pick-a-leader, picking-sides, political-science, politics, president, presidential, protection, race, racism, republican, school, schools, selecting, serves-the-people, sly, speech, spending, street, street-level, strong, teacher, teachers, truth, understand, understanding, unites, vote, voter, voting, war, we-the-people, wisdom, word

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“When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

tags: beckett, forest, logic, malone-dies, molloy, page-94, part-1, part-i, sly, the-unnamable, wit

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“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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“Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs due to their companies moving to other countries. Pick a leader who will fund schools, not limit spending on education and allow libraries to close. Pick a leader who chooses diplomacy over war. An honest broker in foreign relations. A leader with integrity, one who says what they mean, keeps their word and does not lie to their people. Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: bail, bail-out, bankers, banking, banks, best-leader, big-business, capitalism, companies, confident, corporations, democrat, diplomacy, diplomatic, diversity, education, employment, environmentalist, families, farmer, good-leader, government, government-corruption, guide, health-care, homes, honest, humble, identify, incentives, indentifies, integrity, intelligent, job, lead, leader, leadership, libraries, nation, oil-tycoon, people, pick-a-leader, protection, racism, republican, schools, selecting, serves-the-people, sly, teachers, understand

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“Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the welder, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: bribe, confident, corrupt, corruption, diversity, doctor, elections, environmental, environmentalist, farmer, farming, healthcare, humble, humility, insurance, intelligent, leader, leader-quotes, leadership, leadership-quotes, lobbyist, military, oil, pharma, pharmaceutical, politics, president, presidential, race, racism, sly, strong, teacher, teaching, tycoon, vote, washington, weapons, weapons-dealer, welder, welding

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“I’d fallen captive to those expressive dark eyes again. I blamed my inappropriate behavior last night on champagne, but in the sobering light of day, I’d fallen into the same drugged stupor. She was soft. Strong. Real. And seriously curvy.”
― J.J. Sorel, A Taste of Peace

tags: drama, lies-lying-liars, love, sly, work

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“Childermass knew what games the children on street-corners are playing - games that all other grown-ups have long since forgotten. Childermass knew what old people by firesides are thinking of, though no one has asked them in years. Childermass knew what young men hear in the rattling of the drums and the tooting of the pipes that makes them leave their homes and go to be soldiers - and he knew the half-eggcupful of glory and the barrelful of misery that await them. And all that Childermass knew made him smile; and some of what he knew made him laugh out loud; and none of what he knew wrung from him so much as ha'pennyworth of pity.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

tags: childermass, clever-man, jonathan-strange-and-mr-norrell, magic, sly, susanna-clarke

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“That’s my one desire, to be caught," answered Vronsky, with his serene,
good-humored smile. "If I complain of anything it’s only that I’m not caught
enough, to tell the truth. I begin to lose hope.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: anna-karenina, mischievous, rouge, sly, vronsky

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“A banty-rooster sort of guy, the kind that likes to pick fights, especially when the odds are all their way.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

tags: arrogant, pomp, sly

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“Look!" Mr. Poe said, who was still too far to help but close enough to see. "Genghis has an eye tattoo, like Count Olaf! In fact, I think he IS Count Olaf!"

"Of course he is!" Violet cried, holding up the unraveled turban.

"Merd!" Sunny shrieked, holding up a tiny piece of shoelace. She meant something like "That's what we've been trying to tell you.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

tags: a-series-of-unfortunate-events, baby-talk, count-olaf, curse, french-word, funny, humor, lemony-snicket, reference, silly, sly, sly-humor, sneaky, the-austere-academy

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“When she walked by the two officers, they didn't recognize her.
"Have you seen the luscious bonbon with the golden braids?"
She grinned up at them with such impish mischief that they almost forgot their quest for the singer. "She is with her lover," Hannah said. "But she can always handle one or two more." She winked at them. "Go there, through that door."
She made her escape while the uniformed hobbledehoys gawked and gaped and finally burst into the dressing room where Franz, the three-hundred-pound juggling strongman, was adjusting his loincloth.
"I ought not do it," Hannah said aloud to herself as chaos erupted behind her. "I just can't seem to help myself. it is a shame, really.”
― Laura L. Sullivan, Love by the Morning Star

tags: clever, funny, humor, joker, sly, trickster, wit

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“There was always something sly about any act of education. Eve had learned that in the garden.”
― Paul Russell, The Coming Storm

tags: education, eve, garden, sly

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“How we would like to argue with September, and tell her that in the waiting lies the pleasure! That we here in the world of sensible folk know how to wait without twisted-up bellies and tapping feet and wishing for the sun to hurry up and rise and set. That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever. But though I am sly, I am a trickster, I am even cruel—I cannot lie.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

tags: bored, clever, impatient, lies, nervous, patience, pleasure, sly, trickster, waiting, yearning

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“Her mouth twisted into a sly smile. "How disappointing. A pretty girl's about the only thing that would keep me in a shithole like Geneva.”
― Mackenzi Lee, This Monstrous Thing

tags: potential-lgbt, pretty-girl, queer, sly

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“Don't hate the black, don't hate the white, if you get bit, just hate the bite.”
― Sly Stone

tags: don-t-hate, sly, stone

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