The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.
I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.
When in doubt, win the trick.
Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.
The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.
I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.
I just want to continue to be challenged and to keep getting better and better. I don't ever want to lose that or become complacent or pulling tricks.
One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.
The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.
She was such a beautiful and sweet creature. . . and so full of tricks.
If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
. . . people use tricks to get you to think the way they do or take away something you have that they want. One way they do that is to interrupt your normal way of thinking and take you by the hand and guide you down the path they want you to take. Father says they make you take a teeny-weeny step in their direction, and then they start to nudge you a little further down the path and before you know it, you're running full speed with them in a direction that you probably wouldn't have gone alone.
We can be seduced. . . by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.