Quotes About Manipulation

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

love is the biggest con of all

I hit you and I beat you and I told you that I love you.

Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

We want to destroy each other by making the other fall in love with us.

Love. Is it just a word that boys use to manipulate girls?

Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated.

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

It was as close as I had ever come to having power over someone, and I equated it with love.

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

Everyone loves to hate a spin doctor.

So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and long for Brianna, but Jack's true love was made of silicon.

I love all of the government conspiracy stuff. I love all of the shady backroom White House dealings that are going on, and all of the politics involved. That kind of stuff is just fascinating to me.

Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you.

With increasing skill, the ads glorify her role as an American housewife-knowing that her very lack of identity in that role will make her fall for whatever they are selling.

Plott's every touch, whether he was beating her or caressing her, was a form of brutalizing manipulation.

Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin observed, "The North Carolina Republican Party actually sent out a press release boasting about how its efforts drove down African-American turnout in this election."194

The abusive partner continually denies any responsibility for problems.

What most small investors didn't realize was that things were often stacked against them. Many of the most respected business leaders in the country took part in syndicates in which share prices were shamelessly manipulated for the sake of a large, quick gain at the expense of innocent investors. One such, reported by the financial writer John Brooks in his classic Once in Golconda, involved such

In my eyes, Bobby Boss was nothing less than evil, a wide-boy of working-class sport, a cowboy on the make, one of the little men who sells you more seats than he has to offer, wants more cash than there are receipts to show for it, an expert in securing a bit of this, a bit of that. Why had he told people there would be seats when there weren't even tickets?

And now she's a parasite, living off her host. If he makes a mistake, she made the mistake.

Correction. He's no idiot. He's a ruthless tactician who orchestrated the takeover of the House, who knows his members better than they know themselves, who plays a long political game, who never forgets anyone who crosses him, however slight the insult or disrespect, who moves the pieces of the chessboard only after careful deliberation.