Tricks Quotes

• Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Practice, Political, Deception

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• The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

  Ann Landers

  Life, Real, Long

  Ann Landers (2017). “Since You Ask Me”, p.245, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Little by little does the trick.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Relaxation, Doe

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.56, Pelekanos Books

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• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Love, Valentines Day, Nature

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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• Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

  Red Smith

  Dying, Bigs, Deals

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• The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Strength, Best Husband

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• The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

  Erica Jong

  Love, Pain, Joy

  erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

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• The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

  Richard Carlson

  Grateful, Mood, Lows

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life”, Hyperion Books

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• Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

  Gordon Livingston

  Two, Knowing, Important

  Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.45, Da Capo Press

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• The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.

  Marjorie Pay Hinckley

  Inspiring, Stay Strong, Inspiration

  "Small and Simple Things". Book by Marjorie Pay Hinckley, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2003.

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• Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

  Donald Miller

  Fear, Fresh Start, Emotion

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Perspective, Perception, Looks

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.21, Random House

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• Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Luck, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Mistake, Artist, Want

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• The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

  Robin Sharma

  Real, Life Is, Hindsight

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• Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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• A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

  Max Eastman

  Land, Play, Goal

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• You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

  William Camden

  Dog, Fun, Empty Vessels

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• There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Children, Halloween

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• Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

  William Congreve

  Hands, Understanding, Admiration

  1695 Valentine. Love for Love, act 4, sc.21.

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• You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

  Dorothy Parker

  Dogma, Wit, Teach

  Attributed to Dorothy Parker after her death in Robert E. Drennan "The Algonquin Wits" (p. 124), 1968.

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• You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That's the trick. Finding your way back.

  Eleanor Brown

  Believe, May, Littles

  Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.13, Penguin

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• The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.

  George R. R. Martin

  Lying, Heart, Eye

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.474, Bantam

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• No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Important, I Love You

  "Symposium on Structure of Enzymes and Proteins" by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, (p. 284), 1956.

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• Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Loss, Suffering

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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