Quotes About Maneuver

It's hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don't even know about.

I always have a plan," she said, rising her eyebrows. "Sometimes, even, a scheme. You should be taking lessons from me.

throughout the ages, effective results in war have rarely been attained unless the approach has had such indirectness as to ensure the opponent's unreadyness to meet it. The indirectness has usually been physical, and always psychological.

It's easy to get rid of people, Christophe. All you have to do is rely on them.

As an adult man now of forty-one years old I have often used this refrain to get people to do what I want them to do. I didn't know who else to turn to. It gives the person your trying to manipulate nowhere to go. Their only option is to capitulate.

Secrecy and deception in war is often how one wins that war. And it is my preference that we win this fight.

Fortunately, the complex separation maneuver would be made somewhat easier because part of the procedure was preloaded, which meant the computer had all of the nouns memorized. All Lovell needed to provide were the verbs.

You have to be strategic in your action

create fake citizen involvement

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

The hallmark of the fraudulent is that it becomes what you would like it to be.

No single move traps the king.

Look at the view from here. If we were down on the shore, we wouldn't be able to see how the two boats maneuver to avoid each other. We can see the lighthouse and the Dungeness Spit. From up here, we can see lots of things we couldn't if we were in the middle of the waves." She got where he was going. "Now that it's all over, we can see how God took care of us through this. He

As much as the Congress is criticized - and a lot of it is well deserved - the fact is there are many quiet victories if you keep your head down and know how to maneuver in the process and get things done.

Someone is out there, I said. Someone who has been manipulating the events. Playing puppet master, stirring the pot, stacking the deck - Mixing metaphors? Thomas suggested.

Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the most effective sense of the word.

If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.

If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.

In politics, you make use of every opportunity.

It all amounted to the old British butcher-and-bolt tactic, done from the air.

One of the hardest things to do, is control someone. One of the worst things, is succeeding at it.

I play with leverage.

The children of the lie use emotions to manipulate.

It was a trick of his, to set a sentence out like a plate on a table to see what you would put on it.