Tricked Quotes
57 quotes by 56 authors
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
— Napoleon Hill
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and…
— Kevin Mitnick
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Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings…
— Jerry Saltz
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If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.
— Jane Austen
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Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.
— John Christopher
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What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in…
— John Steinbeck
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Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
— Gary Snyder
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So, you got QVC? (Simi) Afraid not, sweetie. (Astrid) You got Soap Net? (Zarek shook his head.) You got any TV? (Simi) Sorry. (Zarek) Are…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's…
— Natalie Goldberg
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I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.
— Augusten Burroughs
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Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one…
— Marilynne Robinson
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It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight, an idea. I move through…
— Franny Billingsley
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A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the…
— Kathryn Erskine
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She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at…
— Katherine Paterson
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He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
— Ann Brashares
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How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Barney's Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said "Eat your peas." Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his…
— Bill Watterson
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See?" she says. "tricked you. You're always staring at your opponents eyes-but that gives you a bad peripheral view.If you want to track my arms…
— Marie Lu
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