Quotes About Manipulation

Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.

It's a special art, asking people to do things, yet making it seem as if you never asked at all.

Abruptly, she let go of his wrists and allowed him to push her to her knees. She looked up, waited for his smile. And then she punched him in the nuts.

It's amazing what you can do, if you just study what people want to hear said and then say it to them!

We mutinied quietly, using every lesson we'd been taught by every person who'd ever used us for their own benefit.

Right now,tucked into the booth,Gray Donohue whispered into the ear of the redhead on his right,while his hand slipped under the table and under the skirt of the female to his left.As he whispered,the redhead lifted her heavy lids,turned her gaze to whereever Gray´s hand had landed,and grinned.Marina whirled back to the bar and drained her beerto the very last bit of foam.He was the best assignment she´d ever had.Or he would be,if she could just get him to notice her.

spoke through her teeth, another skill

Most people are afraid of knives. If you show yourself willing to carve someone up, they tend to be afraid of you.

Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

What did they think I was going to do, steal a body? If I wanted to, I could empty the damn place and get every corpse to play follow the leader. Perhaps that was why I needed watching. Perhaps. --Anita Blake

And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.

want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not.

You can plan around a ruthless man, but a madman throws all your plans to the wind.

He nodded, as if that were the answer he wanted. "She's afraid of you; did you know that?" I smiled, and it wasn't a very nice smile. I could feel the edges curl up with a dark sort of satisfaction. "I hope the little bitch is sweating it out, big time.

How long will you need?" "Two hours, no more." "This had better work," Gaynor said. "Do not threaten me," Dominga said. Oh, goody, maybe the bad guys would fight and kill each other.

Ma petite and I have labored long together to form the love that you have gained by subterfuge.' He turned and looked at Auggie. 'I was your friend, but you have used your arts to make me feel for you what you have not earned. But I, like ma petite, know how to love and not be a prisoner to that love. You can win, or steal, our love, but you cannot steal a true relationship with us; that must be won.

I had a really good time tonight. Tons of boys hanging off me. And I could see it was really messing with her head--she kept giving me these dirty looks. So I'm going to get as many boys as I can running after me this summer. Just to make Elisa really…" She pauses. "What would Kelly say? Narked. " Now her smile's real. "I want to make Elisa narked. " I smile back: the English word sounds really cool in her American accent.

When speculation becomes "truth," opinion "fact," and prejudice a "holy cause," demagoguery is not far behind.

A diferencia del estalinismo y otras dictaduras que se apropiaron, sin más, del poder, el nazismo se sustentó en una base popular.

sucios subterfugios maquinados en la mezquindad para anular el verdadero espíritu de todas las leyes

knew enough to use their blindness to our advantage.

I wasn't going to let her sucker me into being her friend again just so she could turn around and crush me one more time.

Bad boyfriends don't disguise themselves; their girlfriends do it for them.

If one plays on fear, takes away any remotely complicated ideas, and offers people a sense of confidence and right, one's followers will beat to death any enemy they are pointed at.