“To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours.” — Denise Domning Copy Share Image
Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“I can overlook the lie; what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character.” — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
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
...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
“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
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
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
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“In my client who had confessed her “alien abduction” experience, an alter had been instructed that if she began to remember the… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
A few minutes later, she was once again riding her own horse. Deciding to take the lead, she nudged the mare into… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
“Grandma, what big teeth you have? The better to eat you with. That is why the girl must be very wary for… — Ruby Mohan Copy Share Image
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
You're killing me here, Ash. Good, she said. She'd bend a few rules, but they both knew she wasn't going to push… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
“The individual unit of society is the individual & We The People have that authority to be free! It's as if they… — Jose R. Coronado Copy Share Image
Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
“We are all tricked. We think that religion tells us what to believe; but it doesn't, it is telling us what not… — C. JoyBell C 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
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
It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“As usual, small towns like this were full of those who needed entertainment and whilst money was difficult to earn, the philosophy… — Christopher Byford Copy Share Image
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front"… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Games so bickery, so full of trickery nursery, rhyming, hickory, dickory. Blowing that side, the hood call it pickory, Biggie, puffy, busta… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Quite honestly, ... there's never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That's all real, no (computer trickery). — John Landis Copy Share Image
It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my… — Seneca the Younger 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
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 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
Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton Copy Share Image
Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
... the whole sickening trickery in life -- the idea that one cannot fight for one's humanity without, ironically, losing it ...… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“I won't be stuck in traffic 'til I see how rugged my path is And right now I'm loving how fast my… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
