Tricky Quotes

207 quotes by 197 authors

It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in… — Elon Musk
Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are… — P.J. O'Rourke
Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films… — Jason Reitman
It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint. — Ryan Reynolds
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling. — Adrienne Rich
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong. — Maurice Sendak
I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when… — Eli Wallach
I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts. — Rainn Wilson
Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just… — Douglas Rushkoff
You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly. — Christopher Moore
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap. — John Lennon
Prayer's a very tricky business. — Dodie Smith
The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not… — Tori Amos
Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed. — Hugh Laurie
Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed… — James A. Baldwin
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate… — George Orwell
Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way… — Candace Bushnell
Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or… — Elizabeth Strout
Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you. . .… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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