Quotes About Manipulation

Just when you start to realize he doesn't like you, he'll make you think he does, only because he knows he can.

Don't expose your weaknesses. People are slow at understanding you, but very quick at taking advantage of the things you say.

Being nice to someone who did you foul in the past is kinda like a mature way of getting revenge because it sometimes confuses the hell out of them & brings them to the realization that they no longer can manipulate your emotions with their actions...something they thought they'd always be able to do.

I don't think you realize the power you have over me. The way just one word from you can make me feel amazing...or like crap.

When a person attempts to control someone else's life, it only reflects the lack of control they have on their own.

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else.

All these gods, all these mortals who aided him. Men talk of his wiles. His true talent was in how well he could take from others.

There was always a leader. He was not the largest, and he need not be the captain, but he was the one they looked to for instruction in their cruelty. He had a cold eye and a coiling tension. Like a snake, the poets might say, but I knew snakes better by then.

I watched his face for surprise or disgust, even terror. But he only nodded. "She told me." Of course she had. She was a poisoner at heart; she wanted to be sure I came as villain, not saviour.

You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite P.85

I have seen her do a thousand such tricks a thousand times. My father always fell for them. He believed the world's natural order was to please him.

Yes," he said. "That is how it works, Circe. I tell Father that my sorcery was an accident, he pretends to believe me, and Zeus pretends to believe him, and so the world is balanced. It is your own fault for confessing. Why you did that, I will never understand.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

When the tide sank, all boats were lowered. Trump had proven that the majority of Washington Republicans who had initially opposed him were exactly as craven as he had said they were, as he bent them to his will because they saw personal opportunity or necessity for survival, even after the Capitol riot.

Joan is altijd ontevreden en ze rust niet voordat een ander dat ook is. Het enige waar zij blij van wordt is andere mensen net zo ongelukkig maken als zij. Ze wil graag gezelschap in die ongelukkige ontevredenheid van haar.

a large and ever-expanding range at the bullies' disposal.

Only by renunciation of the desire to manipulate and control will the ego melt into the Universal Self of Infinite, Eternal Love.

We know best about these devils Who of children prophets make

He taught me that language was rubbery, plastic. It wasn't, as I thought, something you just use, but something you can play with. Words were made up of little bits that could be shuffled, turned back to front, remixed. They could be tucked and folded into other words to produce unexpected things. It was like cookery, like alchemy. Language hid more than it revealed.

Dos grandes potencias habían decidido fomentar antiguos odios étnicos en Yugoslavia, para convertirlos en una guerra local. En apariencia, la idea consistía en incrementar la dependencia de la zona afectada de la ayuda de organizaciones internacionales, lo cual equivalía a otorgar a organismos supranacionales la potestad de inmiscuirse en los asuntos de Estados individuales.

Los viles aduladores que se arrastran en las cortes sobre la alfombra de los poderosos pueden, al principio

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.