Conniving Quotes

• 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

  Men, Matter, South Carolina

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• I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

  Bess Myerson

  Style, Sitting, Rooms

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• These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control.

  Michael Moore

  Running, Country, Needs

  Michael Moore (2004). "Colega, ¿dónde está mi país?".

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• The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.

  Betty Furness

  Football, Games, Chess

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• No quiero un equipo que huya de la realidad y de la verdad. No quiero gente que siempre esté escapando, que siempre tenga una historia y que siempre esté conspirando. Un avestruz intenta escapar de la verdad. ¿No es un avestruz lo que mete la cabeza en la arena? Pero ¿adivinen qué es lo que sobresale cuando lo hace? Es el culo, eso es. No quiero un equipo así......Porque cuando tienes un equipo así y llegan los problemas, ese equipo no se enfrenta a los problemas.

  John Chaney

  Team, Reality, Ostriches

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• When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

  Laozi

  Government, People, Taoism

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• No es posible llevar a cabo una aventura como es debido sin un montón de deliberaciones, intrigas, especulaciones e intrigas. Es un delicado equilibrio en el que la excitación debe ser igual a la culpa y el sexo debe ser tan brillante como el futuro que te juegas.

  John Dufresne

  Sex, Balance, Guilt

  John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.6, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need.

  Michael Parenti

  Honesty, Hard Work, Compassion

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• If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought's powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Acquiescence, Way

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.22, Univ of California Press

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• Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart

  Judith McNaught

  Heart, Black, Flattery

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• Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Fate, Jest

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.430

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• Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest.

  Rich Hall

  America, Evil, News

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• Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a third: Art. The invisible city not calculated to exist. Beyond the lofty pretensions of the merely ceremonial, long after the dramatic connivings of plitical life, like it or not, it remains. Time past eternally present and undestroyed.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Animal, Past

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). "Arte y Mentiras: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd", Knopf

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• Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

  Annie E. Clark

  Jobs, Mean, People

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• La idea de que Dios obra de manera misteriosa es una tontería. Sus caminos no tienen nada de misteriosos. Son premeditados y ligeramente confabulados, y te colocan en una situación imposible.

  Melina Marchetta

  Impossible Situations, Ideas, Way

  Melina Marchetta (2007). "Saving Francesca", p.154, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

  Kevin Spacey

  Politician, Ifs

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• Here I had a wonderful man who cared for me and I was screwing around with a self-absorbed, conniving monster who'd betrayed me in the worst possible way.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Men, Self, Betrayed

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.124, Vintage Canada

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