It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn’t! Then why should it make them nice to… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it. — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness,… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Some guys make their careers off one horse; kind of a trick horse, a wonder horse. I'm not knocking that, but for… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, 'What do I want to do?' Your 30s, 'Is this what… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of… — Joe Dante Copy Share Image
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
There's really no way to teach you how to act, but there is a way to teach you how to teach yourself… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even… — William J. Murray Copy Share Image
The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick… — Anonymous Copy Share Image