Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.
To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
I love the idea of a beautiful neighborhood that represents the very best of American values, but also as a fun backdrop to some darker, deliciously sneaky things going on in people's lives.
Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.
Hormones were as potent as whiskey, and twice as sneaky.
The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all of that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you’re coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together.
In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.
That was interesting. " "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders. " "He was furtive. " "Sneaky, even. " "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet. " Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)
Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.
Harry Reid is not funny; he's creepy. Nancy Pelosi is creepy. Charles Schumer is sneaky and creepy.
Sneaky, manipulating, merciless bloodsucker. . . " A chuckle drifted up to me. "Pillow talk already? You'll have me hard before we're even back in our room.
You're sure he's not a vampire?' Claire said. 'I've seen movies. They're sneaky. ' She was kidding. Eve didn't smile.
I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.
I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.
America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you've got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags.
You start to learn that democracies don't work when it comes to artistic expression. You learn that if you don't handle your business, someone else is going to handle it and be sneaky about it, and put an extra dollar in their pocket. You learn all sorts of things you take to your next relationship. You're constantly learning about what you don't want to do, first and foremost, which leads you to what you do want to do.
I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.
I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning
