A Quote by George Eliot

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

George Eliot

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George Eliot
British - Novelist
November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Will Durant

You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath

Confucius

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

Virginia Woolf

...the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

Melina Marchetta

I could give you a thiught sheath to put that in,"Isabelle offered. "I got tons." "CERTAINLY NOT," said Simon. Clary shot him an irritated look. "Thanks, but I'm not really a thigh sheath kind of girl," -pg. 214

Cassandra Clare

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

Henry Ward Beecher

I remember one night, my parents were out at a function of some kind and I had just gotten cable in my room. That was a big deal, and I saw 'Blue Velvet' on HBO. It blew my mind in a way that I don't think children's minds are supposed to be blown, but they probably shouldn't be watching 'Blue Velvet.'

James Roday

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

George Saintsbury

Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.

George Muller

She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet was the night Softer than satin was the light From the stars She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet were her eyes Warmer than May her tender sighs

Bernie Wayne

When you're dealing with 25 men, all with different needs, some with egos, you need to manage that. If you can manage that group you get the best out of them.

Scott Parker

I think [ Lars Von Trier] is a fantastic filmmaker. No question. You've got to be ready for him. He's sharp and he's got a sharp tongue and I love that. He doesn't mind it back.