Quotes About Manipulation

She was a greedy thing sometimes. Wanting for herself. Twisting the world all out of proper shape. Pushing everything about with the weight of her desire.

There is a great difference between a gift given freely, and one that's meant to tie you to a man.

Anything you say at this point cannot be trusted. You know I am well and truly angry, so you are in the grip of fear. This means I cannot trust any word you say, as it comes from fear. You are clever, and charming, and a liar. I know you can bend the world with your words. So I will not listen.

La experiencia me ha enseñado que la mejor forma de protegerte es hacer creer a tus enemigos que no pueden hacerte daño.

A veces era muy ansiosa. Deseaba cosas para ella misma. Retorcía el mundo y le cambiaba la forma correcta. Lo revolvía todo con el peso de su deseo.

Apology now is of little consequence," she said, her voice flat and chill as slate. "Anything you say at this point cannot be trusted. You know I am well and truly angry, so you are in the grip of fear. "This means I cannot trust any word you say, as it comes from fear. You are clever, and charming, and a liar. I know you can bend the world with your words. So I will not listen." "Vashet to Kvothe

Eres inteligente, y encantador, y un mentiroso. Sé que puedes doblegar al mundo con tus palabras. Y por eso no te escucharé.

I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.

A lot of people pretend to be. They wear robes and put on airs to take advantage of the ignorant and gullible. But

effects could be catastrophic. If Caudicus heard

Things we understand we can try to control".

Now tell me what I want to know or God will weep when he hears what I've done to you!

clever, thoughtless person is one of the most terrifying things there is.

Deseaba cosas para ella misma. Retorcía el mundo y le cambiaba la forma correcta. Lo revolvía todo con el peso de su deseo.

I learned that the best way to stay safe is to let your enemy's think you cant be hurt".

So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk was simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing. But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?

He had used only a drop of his perfume for his performance in Grasse. There was enough left to enslave the whole world. If he wanted, he could be feted in Paris, not by tens of thousands, but by hundreds of thousands of people; or could walk out to Versailles and have the King kiss his feet; write the Pope a perfumed letter and reveal himself as the new Messiah; be anointed in Notre-Dame as Supreme Emperor before kings, or even as God come to earth.

Hem düÅŸündüm ki, senin fark?na varmas? için yanl?? çalmak zorundaysan, o zaman hiç fark?na varmas?n, daha iyi. Görüyor musunuz, ben böyleyim.

Se dio cuenta de que en el fondo podía contar a la gente todo cuanto quería; una vez había ganado su confianza -y confiaban en él tras el primer aliento con que inhalaban su aroma artificial-, se lo creían todo.

Nurse Ratched,

Con men and tricksters run the world. Rascals rule. And do you know why? because they are hungier than we are. because they know what they want. because they believe in life more than we do.

What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could manipulate in order to manipulate others. He himself remained invisible, a puppeteer working the strings of his alter-ego from a dark, solitary place behind the curtain

times i think u were the most cherished trophy i had, but sometimes i think i was the game that you played.

These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoken into the wrong ear. Impugn a man's character, and everything that man does is made to seem underhanded, suspect, fraught with double motives.