“In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think.” — Erik Valeur Copy Share Image
A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Good advertising should give the reader essential facts about the product or company advertised and should do so engagingly without trickery or… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery,… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is "run… — Ari Marmell Copy Share Image
“At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know… — Jack White Copy Share Image
A young couple decided to commit suicide together due to a very tough life, they went to the top of the tallest… — Heaven Matino Copy Share Image
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“We worked through the “alien abduction” memory and discovered that the “spaceship” was parked in the courtyard of the cult training centre.… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“I’m sick of them. I never want to see them again. Except Aros; he smells nice. And Rome; because he’s so strong… — Jaymin Eve Copy Share Image
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing.… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor. — David Starr Jordan Copy Share Image
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“How can I help being a humbug," he said, "when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it… — Milbourne Christopher Copy Share Image
So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Quick as a whip, she did the only thing she could think of to distract him. Her mask clattered to the ground,… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
You know you can usually solve almost any problem, or you'll realize you can't, but usually you can solve almost any problem… — Dennis Muren Copy Share Image
In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
