Tricks Quotes
1143 quotes by 913 authors
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Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain for a bit…
— Melina Marchetta
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You've managed-- in our short three years together-- to kill not only my god, but my father, my brother, and my fiance. That's kind of…
— Brandon Sanderson
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I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a…
— Albert Hofmann
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Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying…
— Daniel Handler
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Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things,…
— Donald Miller
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Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of…
— Richard Powers
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There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [said Halt]. 'How do you know which…
— John Flanagan
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I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find…
— Lisa Kleypas
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The trick, my brethren and sisters is to enjoy the journey, traveling hand in hand, in sunshine and storm, as companions who love one another.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no…
— Ian Mcewan
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History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved…
— Terry Pratchett
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Calvin: Trick or Treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised…
— Bill Watterson
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The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
— Christopher Paolini
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Gorlog's teeth!" Erak exclaimed, stunned at the numbers. "How many are there?" "Ten thousand, maybe twelve," Halt replied briefly. The Skandian let out a low…
— John Flanagan
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Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?" "That's stupid." "What is? Love, or my question?" "I don't know." "You don't know? You've tried that trick…
— Rick Yancey
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Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect — don't have anything to do with them. Do…
— Ambrose Bierce
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He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself…
— Jodi Picoult
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Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you…
— Deb Caletti
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