Skilful Quotes

But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee. — Alan Lewis

Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive. — Jen Campbell

Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

I'm uncomfortable with verbs; they expect too much. — Caitriona Lally

A skilful (commander) strikes a decisive blow, and stops. — Lao-Tzu

You've got to do it all, the physical as well as the skilful. — Jamie Redknapp

[the car] backfired a lot. Loud enough that when I drove in the wrong part of town and it let loose with a gas fart, people actually ducked for cover. — Adrienne Wilder

The skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to unloose what he has bound will be impossible. — Lao-Tzu

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all, it keeps them off the street. — Gus Kyle

Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution. — Ajahn Sumedho

The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps — Lao-Tzu

Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand. — Sun Tzu

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original. — Horace

A man's worth can be judged through those who dislike him. — Bill Loguidice

Straight roads do not make skilful drivers. — Paulo Coelho

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. — Winston Churchill

You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it. — Benjamin Carson

Literature nowadays is a trade ... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets. — George Gissing

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope? — George Eliot

Charles' driving, skilful though it might be, kept his passengers in a constant state of breathlessness. — Georgette Heyer

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase. — Storm Jameson

The Tao is hidden, and has no name; but it is the Tao which is skilful at imparting (to all things what they need) and making them complete. — Lao-Tzu

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. — Juvenal

However enlightened and however skilful a central power may be, it cannot of itself embrace all the details of the existence of a great nation. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians. — Harry S. Truman

There is no architect
Can build as the Muse can;
She is skilful to select
Materials for her plan. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow. — Louis Navellier

Good heavens, ogling was addictive. — Meredith Duran

Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no. — E. E. Cummings

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. — Du Mu

You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. — Samuel Butler

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person. — Tony McCoy

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven? — Walter Scott

I want to see overwhelming force repel anybody who is trying to get into the White House. — Jason Chaffetz

To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone calls victory in battle good, but it is not really good. — Sun Tzu

The skilful closer needs no bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be impossible; — Lao-Tzu

It's not what hurts you that makes you respectable. It's how you get over it. — Deborah Smith

The skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed; — Lao-Tzu

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice. — Isaac Watts