Tricks Quotes
1143 quotes by 883 authors
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It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.
— Erick Erickson
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The "burning bush" was not a miracle. It was a test. God wanted to find out whether or not Moses could pay attention to something…
— Lawrence Kushner
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Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to…
— Jim Lehrer
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The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to…
— Walker Percy
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Over the long term, despite significant drops from time to time, stocks (especially an intelligently selected stock portfolio) will be one of your best investment…
— Joel Greenblatt
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Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining…
— William Shakespeare
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Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
— Tom Stoppard
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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life…
— June Jordan
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Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our…
— Joshua Foer
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Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in…
— James Fallows
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The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words....
— Robert Breault
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The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.
— Robert Breault
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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise…
— Grover Cleveland
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The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant…
— Raymond Chandler
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One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
— John Steinbeck
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All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but…
— William Saroyan
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It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world,…
— Mary Blakely
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There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So…
— Rebecca De Mornay
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