Tricky Quotes - Page 7

• Uh, yeah, I do. The scythe was a little tricky at first, but—much like golf—turns out it’s all in the swing.

  Rachel Vincent

  Golf, Swings, Littles

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Reaper”, p.39, Harlequin

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• But I'd much rather face a dozen assassins like LaFleur any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings.

  Jennifer Estep

  Night, Feelings, Assassins

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• Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own land necessitates. . . . Certainly the time frame we presently inhabit has much that is shabby and tricky to offer; and much that needs to be treated with laughter and ironic humor.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Laughter, Land, Impact

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• Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

  Braith Anasta

  Rugby League, League, Rugby

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• It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

  Joel Edgerton

  Attitude, Tree, Way

  "Enjoying life on 'the list'" by Giles Hardie, www.smh.com.au. April 13, 2012.

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• The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Powerful, Science, Tools

  Benoit B. Mandelbrot (2013). “Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E”, p.16, Springer Science & Business Media

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• 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

  Differences, Trying, Morality

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.93, Zondervan

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• 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 as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Brain, Neuroplasticity, Computer

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• 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

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Rainn Wilson: I believe in education, not handouts". Interview with Sonya Hamasaki, www.cnn.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

  Maurice Sendak

  Childhood

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• 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

  Character, Exercise, Tough

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• 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 out of indie subjects excites me.

  Jason Reitman

  Character, People, Kind

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• 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 - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Positive, Zero, Health

  "P.J. O'Rourke Takes On 'The Wealth of Nations'". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 8, 2007.

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• 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 a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Yield, Energy

  "Elon Musk on rockets, sports cars, and solar power". Interview with Michael Kanellos, www.cnet.com. February 15, 2008.

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• Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

  Ewan McGregor

  Deals, Personal Life

  "New Again: Ewan McGregor". Interview with Todd Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.

  Anne Lamott

  Loss, People, Alive

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• I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life.

  Maurice Sendak

  Thinking, Blue, Sky

  "Why Maurice Sendak Puts Kid Characters in Danger". Interview With Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 26, 2006.

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• All in all, we might think we like choice, but the question of which choices count and which do not is very, very tricky.

  Kent Greenfield

  Thinking, Choices, Might

  Kent Greenfield (2011). “The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits”, p.10, Yale University Press

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• Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.

  Lisa See

  Writing, Ungrateful, Feelings

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.197, A&C Black

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• Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it.". . . "Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Hate, Years, Joy

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.680, Simon and Schuster

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• All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Years, Challenges

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hero, Dwarves, Ideas

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This love was tricky...was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hate, Heart, Fire

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• Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.

  Brian Herbert

  Flower, Opportunity, Tiny

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). “Dune: The Butlerian Jihad”, p.135, Macmillan

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• Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.

  Sylvia Plath

  Growing Up, World, Littles

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.114, Hamilton Books

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