Quotes About Manipulation

Queens and goddesses forget nothing, except when it suits them.

Now," I said, "why don't you come with me and see what I do? Because obviously you don't trust me. And I want you to trust me, Leon," I lied. "It's important to me that you trust me." I didn't care if Leon trusted me. But I did want him to keep paying me.

I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little bitches got everything I ever wanted, and now I'm going to make sure they get exactly what they deserve. Does that make me sound awful? Sorry, but as every pretty little liar knows, sometimes the truth's ugly-and it always hurts. I'll be watching.... Mwah! -A

Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along... or you're next.

They felt kind of like dolls, with Ali arranging their every move.

Mona played with dolls, I play with body parts. Game on bitches. -A

Alison was great at keeping secrets, but she was also great at punishing people with the truth." - Jason Dilaurentis, Pretty Little Liars

Don't you know anything? When it comes to flirting, you lie! you say whatever it takes to make girls feel amazing and special.

Look. Whatever Gina Leigh told you about Delilah, it's not true. Gina is a vindictive psychopath. She's been blackmailing people, impersonating her daughter, for years.

But he would spare the waitress—he had a new victim lined up. A girl who'd rejected him even though he was perfect for her. A girl he'd gotten to know quite well, inside and out. A girl who wanted someone else, someone undeserving of her love. Aerin Kelly, that cruel, icy bitch. Hell, maybe he'd go after her new little boyfriend, too. He couldn't wait.

Don't hate me for filling up your feeds. Don't hate me for the brands I convinced you to buy, the movies I goaded you to see. Don't resent me for the gossip I dropped, breadcrumb-like, for you to devour, obsess over, believe. I was what you needed. I was your guiding light, people. That was why they called me an influencer

Playing on her femininity and making him feel uncomfortable seemed highly effective.

Your need to kill me is not greater than my need to use you," Tamra informed the kehok.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.

But when it comes time to decide your fate, they'll sign you on the line right next to Satan. Cause' they don't care about us. They just use us up.

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

We live in a time of fake news - things that are made up and manufactured.

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.