Ruse Quotes

My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse. — Mason Cooley

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse. — Albert Einstein

The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks. — Michael Moore

... I am not noble. This is not a ruse to free you. The only thing I want is you underneath me, willing and wild. Do you understand? — Danielle Monsch

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse. — John Crowley

Wanderess, Wanderess,
weave us a story of seduction and ruse.
Heroic be the Wanderess,
the world be her muse. — Roman Payne

We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it — Michael Ruse

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God's existence isn't important. It's what we do with what we've got that counts. — Michael Ruse

Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians. — Pat Robertson

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Like all fairy tales, the beginning is always beautiful, a ruse to draw you into something you are anticipating. — Sarah Addison Allen

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently. — Richard Wagner

Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today. — Michael Ruse

Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen. — Robert Genn

The God Delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist, and the McGraths show why. — Michael Ruse

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living. — B.B. Wynter