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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house. -- Beverly Cleary
I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light. -- Richard Gere
For even the very wise cannot see all ends. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
You can be very wild and still be very wise -- Yoko Ono
It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change. -- Confucius
A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still. -- Gene Stratton-Porter
A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh. -- Gilbert Highet
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice? -- Bette Midler
I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported. -- Jesse Helms
Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth. -- Margaret Cavendish
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' -- John Abbott
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live. -- Sidney Sheldon
It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment-when you see that face, you are transformed forever. -- Penelope Cruz
Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions. -- Brian Froud
It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one's life accordingly. -- Benjamin Carson
Mary Kay was the wholesome personification of the American dream. For women everywhere, she brought the impossible dream to life by making it a reality. She was a very wise lady. She was a people person. She was very sensitive to the importance of recognizing people. -- Zig Ziglar
This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I'd like to be very wise. -- Duffy
I'm not very wise to many things. -- Charles Manson
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
My mother was a very wise and strong person. -- Jennifer Hudson
You can be very wild and still be very wise. -- Yoko Ono
The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart. -- Norman Lear
Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path. -- Alison Jackson
My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents. -- Keira Knightley
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. -- Samuel Johnson
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise. -- Thomas Moore
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. -- Alexander Pope
Very few of us playing a murderer will actually have killed someone. -- Greg Wise
The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness. -- Greg Wise
Acting is not my primary drive in life, although I'd be a very unhealthy person without it. -- Greg Wise
I'm very interested in poo. We don't have a very good relationship with poo, and we should have. -- Greg Wise
In Scotland, I have a huge barn full of woodworking tools. I love working with my hands. I basically just make myself bleed a lot. I'm very accident-prone. -- Greg Wise
I don't believe we are, because I believe that just as 9/11 was an attack on a very populous area, terrorism also looks to see where you can go and where you're not expected. -- Bob Wise
I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important. -- Robert Wise
The Navy is very old and very wise. -- Rudyard Kipling
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I am very conscious that I am not wise at all. -- Socrates
To think to be wise alone is a very great folly. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My body is very wise; it knows how to heal itself. -- Louise Hay
An honest and wise man is always a very simple man. -- Debasish Mridha
The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little. -- Socrates
Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time? -- Rachel Cohn
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. -- William Ellery Channing
I think that we'd be very wise not to predict anything with Donald Trump. -- Rashid Khalidi
Children are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends. -- Virginia C. Andrews
To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier. -- Oscar Wilde
John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though. -- Hank Green
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power. -- William Mapother
It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old. -- Patricia Briggs
A very wise person once told me marriage is hard, that you have to keep fighting for it everyday. -- Liz Fenton
Indeed if fish had fish-lore and Wise-fish, it is probable that the business of anglers would be very little hindered. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise. -- Jane Austen
Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise â?? which showed how young she was. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy. -- Vir Das
I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy. -- Daniel S. Loeb
Children are the keys of Paradise.They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer. -- Richard Henry Stoddard
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man. -- Solomon Burke
If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be. -- Frederick Lenz
Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me. -- Neil Patrick Harris
In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers. -- Frederick Lenz
Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows. -- Frederick Pollock
He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable. -- Max Muller
Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut. -- Daniel Kahneman
You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important. -- Phil Jackson
I've always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC"¦ because supporting the ANC means you're investing very well in your business -- Jacob Zuma
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly. -- Chuck D
It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad. -- C.P. Snow
This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition. -- Omar Sharif
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love. -- Lauren Kate
A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future. -- Jodi Picoult
I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies. -- John Travolta
I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster. -- Philip Dunne
Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. -- Jessye Norman
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The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred by Guy Finley is a very wise book, filled with inspiration to help you dramatically improve your life. I highly recommend it. -- Daniel Amen
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. -- Sara Teasdale
It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master. -- Ben Jonson
Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me. -- Christopher Paolini
Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. -- Jessye Norman
When somebody can be intimidated, I use this. Because I'm very wise person. I know how to intimidate my opponents. I know how to play tricky stuff for them. -- Kostya Tszyu
The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy. -- Brandon Lee
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children. -- Roger Ascham
We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not happy. They lack balance. They take it all too seriously. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision. -- Andreas Katsulas
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about -- Ingmar Bergman
Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing. -- Federico Fellini

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