And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.
And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a ''revolutionary'' review, or read a ''revolutionary'' speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly ''revolutionary'.' What a stupid word What a stale fuss
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
If Clinton's room had the slogan 'It's the economy stupid,' ... then for China it's 'It's Taiwan, stupid.'
I once heard a learned man say, 'Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure.'
Ignorance, the product of darkness, stupefies the senses in all embodied beings, binding them by the chains of folly, indolence and lethargy.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
My brother was very gifted as a student, and my sister was very social. She had all the friends and boyfriends, and I just always felt stupid.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
We need to take care of the ball and we can't take any stupid penalties.
Folly is the cloak of knavery.
The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
You're talking about a team that has great recent tradition in Western Michigan. Our guys aren't stupid. They know this team is capable of beating us. We know we have to play our best basketball.
They're trying to get people's attention. That's great, but there are all kinds of ways of getting people's attention without calling them stupid.
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows but once his life is over, there's an end to it his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.
I think Austria would be very stupid, indeed, to put me in jail for several years.
Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud that an attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality, where you become a pawn of their blindness, a slave of their non-thinking and their evasions, while their intelligence, their rationality, their perceptiveness become the enemies you have to dread and flee that you do not care to live as a dependent, least of all a dependent on the stupidity of others, or as a fool whose source of values is the fools he succeeds in fooling that honesty is not a social duty, not a sacrifice for the sake of others, but the most profoundly selfish virtue man can practice his refusal to sacrifice the reality of his own existence to the deluded consciousness of others.
Customers aren't stupid. If you have a sophisticated customer who understands that it's much cheaper to transact with you online than it is in the store, retailers can reward that customer with lower prices online, but again, you must make sure that the consumer understands that. As long as the company does a good job of informing the customer that there are price and inventory differences between online and offline, it's fine.
Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
At the end we preferred to travel all
night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears,
saying
That this was all folly.
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
He's just stupid, to be honest. He's got to learn. He's a young lad who's full of fun. That's the animal you get.
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes -- love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.
The Western media works within a culture, and if you address them based on our culture it will look different. Sometimes it looks stupid. Sometimes it looks terrorist.
I hope they get the message plain and clear if you're gonna do something stupid, you don't wanna do it here.
(There was) a lack of communication, lack of ability to finish. If we had scored half the goals we should have, we would have won 10-1. We didn't score in the second half, and we got frustrated. You make a stupid mistake, a bad mistake, and you aren't able to finish, then that's it, it's done.
It was stupid. I lied to the coaching staff and everybody else just to play. I should have just tried to wait. It was selfish and it probably hurt the team a little bit.
At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.
I gave a statement and said what happened. I'm not out there recruiting for anybody. Ole Miss isn't paying me to recruit. I'm not stupid. I know the rules.
Naivete in grownups is often charming but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
This is not something we would do to our customers. You spend too long building a relationship with a customer to do something this stupid. It's a wild rumor, and I would love to put it to rest once and for all.
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals censorship blocks transmission.
I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced back to an organization.
Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
It wasn't like, 'I'm going to do this to you. I'm going to do that to you'. It was just a stupid letter. I've gotten stupid letters before. That's basically it. Now, for some reason, it's on the front page and it's some big, huge story.
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
But Folly, who no Temper knows,
Words pursues with hotter Blows:
'Till the eyes of Love were lost,
Which has such Pain to Mortals cost.
If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.
I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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