Quotes About Manipulation

Your old man sent me anonymous letters himself to make me divorce him." She rippled with he-hes. "I hung on to spite him. I didn't want him. It's my only pleasure left." She laughed.

You spoilt, pathetic bitch. I'm not going to be there for you any more, Hephzibah, not in the way you want me to be. Do you understand that? Whatever is given to you is never enough. You want to take away bigger and bigger pieces of me until there's nothing left. You do that to everyone. You wanted to keep me here, like a prisoner, a slave, didn't you? But you can't. It's over.

Gjuha është një putanë, me të cilën kushdo mund të abuzojë si të ketë dëshirë.

The "Sea of Lies" article in Newsweek (July

The hand doesn't need to be quicker than the eye if the eye is looking in the wrong place. Everything the magician does is about misleading the audience, everything: how he stands, where he looks, where he points and especially what he says. He will never be doing what he says he is doing, and if he tells you what he's about to do, he's lying.

Oderint dum metuant." "You're going to have to translate that for me. I didn't go to Gratin." "It's Groton. Means 'Let them hate, so long as they fear.' Cato.

You let the fairies fox you while the devil Does you.

Los católicos me ponen nervioso -dije-, porque juegan sucio. -¿Y los protestantes? -preguntó riendo. -Me irritan con su manoseo de las conciencias. -¿Y los ateos? -seguía riéndose. -Me aburren, porque siempre hablan de Dios. -¿Y qué es usted, pues? -Soy un payaso -dije-, de momento, superior a mi fama.

GörünüÅŸte laf olsun diye söylenmiÅŸ baz? sözler birdenbire hileli bir havaya bürünür. A??rla??p tuhaf bir ÅŸekilde h?z alarak gelecek zaman?n herhangi bir bölümünde bir yer açmak üzere, konuÅŸandan öne geçer, hedefini kesinlikle bulan bir bumerang gibi korkunç, konuÅŸana geri döner yine.

It is still possible, in an election, to use the word emigrant in such a way that it damages one's opponent

Juju is not enough to protect you. Everything you have I will turn against you. I'll turn sugar bitter for you. I'll take your very shield and crack it on your head.

She doesn't complain about anything I do; she is physically unable to. That's because I fixed her early. I told her in heartfelt tones that one of the reasons I love her is because she never complains. So now of course she doesn't dare complain.

His puppets have a nihilistic spirit, if you'd understand what I meant by that. Sometimes his puppets won't perform at all. He just lets them sit there, watching us. Then he has them look at each other and then back at us until it feels as if they have information, some kind of dreadful information about each and every one of us, and you begin to wish they'd decide to keep their mouths shut forever.

Our exchanges always seem to turn into whatever he wants them to.

Isn't that what you thought you'd bought . . . affectionate obedience? Somebody who wouldn't feel any more or any less than you wanted her to feel, someone who'd love but not dare to—whatever it turns out I've dared to do. But really you shouldn't be surprised this happened; this is what you get for placing people in your debt in such a way that they can never repay it!

love of power and his dealing so contemptuously with people once he had fallen out with them.38 In Ulyanov's view, Struve had betrayed orthodox Marxism with the 'bourgeois apologetics' of his conciliatory, legal Marxism. He was nothing but 'a politico, an artful dodger, a huckster, and an impudent boor

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

Making other people feel bad about themselves and their needs is a very powerful thing to do. Totally immoral, but powerful.

But this idea, after a few quick triturations, would in turn become dangerous, for is there anything in a word which cannot be turned into a dagger?

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.