Quotes About Manipulation

Upon my knees i say 'You used me' And I feel dirty from your touch

Had his shim picks

It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people- with the single mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.

They proceeded with an infinite guile that would have horrified her parents.

agonizingly aware of the money in the vicinity and convinced it was theirs for a few words in the right key

Gloria had been sorry for him but she had judged it best not to show it. In a final burst of kindness she had tried to make him hate her, there at the last.

Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy.

It was a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body.

Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.

Hypnosis was a tool that Dick had distrusted and seldom used, for he knew that he could not always summon up the mood in himself—he had once tried it on Nicole and she had scornfully laughed at him.

Well, Rosalind has still to meet the man she can't outdistance. Honestly, Alec, she treats men terribly. She abuses them and cuts them and breaks dates with them and yawns in their faces--and they come back for more. They love it. They hate it. She's a--she's a sort of vampire, I think--and she can make girls do what she wants usually--only she hates girls.

Tu orgullo es lo único que posees, y si dejas que lo manipule un hombre que tiene que manipular una docena de orgullos antes de almorzar, estás aceptando un montón de decepciones que un profesional hecho y derecho ha aprendido a evitar.

To hold a man a woman has to appeal to the worst in him.

That's it, she'd buy some off a dead man and she could put them in a box and take them to important meetings and bang them on the table to get her way. Maybe she'd buy four…

Show the politicians a picture of a rat, and they immediately identify.

Les meten malas ideas, y como son jóvenes, caen en la trampa. Luego se creen unos héroes porque llevan pistola. Y no se dan cuenta de que, a cambio de nada, porque al final no hay más premio que la cárcel o la tumba, han dejado el trabajo, la familia y los amigos. Lo han dejado todo para hacer lo que les mandan cuatro aprovechados. Y para romperles la vida a otras personas, dejando viudas y huérfanos por las esquinas.

Así se manipula a un hombre y se fabrica un héroe.

El hacerse de reputación, pues, es arte que requiere tramoya y bambalinas.

Government is based on two things: restraint and deceit.

Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.

She appeared to adore Thomas's repugnance to her and to draw it out of him every chance she got as if it added delectably to her martyrdom.

Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.

He don't know it's anything he can't know, the old man said. That's his trouble. He thinks if it's something he can't know then somebody smarter than him can tell him about it and he can know it just the same. And if you were to go there, the first thing he would do would be to test your head and tell you what you were thinking and howcome you were thinking it and what you ought to be thinking instead. And before long you wouldn't belong to your self no more, you would belong to him.

In many ways, Trump appeals to people's smallness, their fears, whatever part of them wants to look backward.