Quotes About Trick

It's natural to look at a goal and think… it might not be attainable. The trick is to ignore the "not." Charlie had a gift for ignoring.

It's such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.

Nothing pleased the Mongols more than a good trick on the field of battle.

Upon learning of Sebastian's success with the commissioner, Cam Rohan remarked admiringly, "That was a spruce trick, my lord. I'm beginning to think you can persuade anyone to do nearly anything." Sebastian grinned and glanced at Evie, who was sitting nearby. "I should think Lady St. Vincent is proof of that," he said.

You mean you're against a match with Miss Mercer?" "Well…yes. But I'm also against a match with Beatrix." Silence fell over the room. "This is a trick of some sort," Leo said. "Unfortunately, it's not," Christopher replied.

The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.

Some men are warriors and some men are weenies. The trick is figuring out which is which.

It's a trick, love's word, a broken mirror, footsteps in the water. Then you'd leave me in the tomb again, just as everyone does when trying to convince those listening to them that true love is impossible.

The age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. Have a lovely 65th Birthday.

After the rain ended, I tried my new trick with the dog door again, and sure enough, I was out in the backyard for a second time. I dug a hole, chewed the hose, and barked at Smokey, who was sitting in a window and pretending not to notice me. When a large yellow bus pulled up in front of the house, Ethan and several more neighborhood kids, including Chelsea, tumbled out. I jumped up to put my paws against the fence, and the boy ran to me, laughing.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.

There's a trick to not crying when you peel an onion," Mr. Powell said, tears rolling down his cheeks. "Wish I knew it.

Mr. Vanadium, your quarter trick is really cool. But here's something out of Heinlein.

The trick is making memory a blessing To know the past forever lost, yet seeing Behind the wall a garden still in blossom.

The trick wasn't necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage.

When the devil wants to punish his worshippers, he uses the trick of karma.

What makes it noteworthy is that a striking coincidence has made it a cleverer trick than they could have known. For the book is a rather silly story about a governess and two haunted children. I am afraid that in it Mr. James exposes the extent of his ignorance. He knows little about children and nothing at all about governesses

But fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmm boy!

Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?"

Surely there was some divine trick to make the hours go faster. To let them slip past unseen, to sleep for years, so that when I woke again the world would be new. I closed my eyes. Through the window I heard the bees singing in the garden. My lion's tail beat against the stones. An eternity later, when I opened my eyes, the shadows had not even moved.

Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.