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  • If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

    "Liz Meriwether: Beginning And End Of The Fempire". Interview with Kate Branch, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 17, 2010.
  • What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.

    Dream   Fall   Color  
    Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.5, A&C Black
  • And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between a good physician and no physician at all; by which it is meant to insinuate, that the mischievous officiousness of art does commonly more than counterbalance any benefit derivable from it.

    Gilbert Blane (1821). “Elements of Medical Logick”, p.10
  • All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

    Money   War   Battle  
    Benjamin Franklin, E. Sargent (1855). “The select works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.459
  • As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.

    Luck   Beginners   Faces  
  • Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible definition of the words. They can't hop into the back of a Volvo, but they can fetch, run and play, be mischievous, and reciprocate affection. So why don't they get to curl up by the fire? Why can't they at least be spared being tossed on the fire?

    "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.
  • Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

    Children   Grief   Heart  
  • Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

    Real   Pride   Vices  
  • It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts pretend that we are doing something about violence and oppression. No doubt it is easier to pass a speech code or hate-crimes law and proclaim the streets safer than actually to make the streets safer, but the one must never be confused with the other... Indeed, equating "verbal violence" with physical violence is a treacherous, mischievous business.

    Hate   Confused   Law  
  • Live fast, have fun, be a bit mischievous.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Ramil met Tashi's eyes with a mischievous look. "Now Wife we have a long voyage ahead of us with no interruptions, no affairs of state to sidetrack us." He brushed his fingers againist the lacings of her neck. "Isn't it time you returned that shirt to its owner?

    Eye   Long   Wife  
  • Neverland is the way I would like real life to be ... timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic.

    Real   Magic   Way  
    mary martin (1976). “my heart belongs”
  • a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one of the most dangerous and mischievous forces in the world.

  • Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

    Virtue   Foolish   Theory  
    Romain Rolland (1914). “John Christopher: Storm and Stress”
  • To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

    Sheep   Giving   Cows  
    Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.15, Shambhala Publications
  • When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

    Mean   Boys   Poverty  
    Carlo Collodi, Collodi Nipote (2012). “The Pinocchio Megapack: 4 Classic Puppet Tales”, p.26, Wildside Press LLC
  • Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

    Laughter   Mean   Delight  
  • It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be deduced from the knowledge of a hundred facts may be very different from those deducible from five. It is also possible that the facts first known may be the exceptions to a rule and not the rule itself, and generalisations from these first-known facts, though useful at the time, may be highly mischievous, and impede the progress of the science if retained when it has made some advance.

  • Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.

    Sheep   People   Giving  
  • Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

    Loyalty   Men   May  
    Josiah Royce, John Joseph McDermott, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (2005). “The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce: Logic, loyalty, and community”, p.898, Fordham Univ Press
  • Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

    Jewels   Belief   Made  
    Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.24
  • Our good nature and endearing qualities will not arouse the answers to our prayers. Rather it is our mischievous, dishonest attributes that provide the master keys to heaven. When we identify and work to transform our self-centered qualities and crooked characteristics, the key turns and the gates unlock. Blessings and good fortune are now free to rain down upon us.

    Prayer   Rain   Blessing  
  • the excess of all good things is mischievous.

  • Heroes are a mischievous race.

    Hero   Race   Mischievous  
  • Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?" "Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.

    Angel   Done   Said  
    Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Annotated Little Women with English Grammar Exercises: by Louisa May Alcott (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.253, Powell Publications, LLC
  • So far as I am concerned, I am not at all aware that there indeed exists a serious side as well to my cartoons drawn in an inspired mood of mischievous abandon.

    Cartoon   Sides   Serious  
  • It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

    Selfish   Men   Apes  
    "The Strange Fiction of Devon Pitlor: Volume III". Book by Devon Pitlor, p. 241, May 27, 2014.
  • I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I like stirring things up. Im on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I dont get in too much trouble.

    Kids   Adults   Too Much  
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