Quotes About Maneuvering

He's dominant, lass. We've all known people who can make you do things for them and go on doing things until you become ill.

That man could hide behind a corkscrew he's so twisted.

The secret to entering a compartment was to position oneself strategically at the corner of a door, squeezing in through the edges while the disembarking passengers rushed out through the door's central area.

Sometimes he lashed out just to drive home a point. If he thought it would teach us a lesson, he'd blow some minor grievance out of all proportion, and even as he was yelling he might wink at someone nearby. Then, ten minutes later, he'd be fine, leaving us bewildered and emotionally depleted. There were also times he would leave us emotionally uplifted. He was truly a master at manipulating people.

407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

Akhilesh Yadav played a clever game by joining hands with BSP so that he can save his skin and use Dalit votes to win a few seats.

Negotiating deals among members of Congress is an exercise in wearing masks, scaring up votes, and, oftentimes, bluffing.

The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.

Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.

Those in power always try to distort reality, to suit their needs and keep things safe.

He felt she was walking in a circle about him, turning him end for end, shaking him quietly, and emptying his pockets, without once moving herself. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Katya laughed and shrugged. She was a hired girl; she said such things on order. Much of her life was this sort of semiskilled playing to other people, usually older people, with the hope of making them like her; making them feel that she was valuable to them; wresting some of their power from them, if but fleetingly. It was like provoking a boy or a man to want you. That could be risky, as Katya well knew.

Now anti-pornography feminists are trying to turn back the clock and shut women's sexuality away behind the locked doors of political correctness. Their first line of attack is to define the debate in their own terms. The first line of defense is to flatly reject such maneuvering.

by knowing someone's needs and doing them a favor, you own them. You will be able to get them to do a lot more for you, further down the line, when you need them to.

you're angling for me to sanction petrol for you to go to

As it turned out Miranda did not much change the practices of law enforcement: police and prosecutors managed to figure out ways of maneuvering around the decision.

Warfare and trickery. It is your natural element.

Los ojos ven, a veces lo que se ha querido que vieran.

Everyone has their fulcrum, Chiku. You can bend anyone to any cause with the right timing.

Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.

Any political or philosophical agenda can and will be perverted by power and/or fear.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

You have a negative, and you can have an influence whether you want to have it more contrasty or less contrasty; you can pre-flash the photo paper. You can make it warmer or colder, lighter, darker. This is all a way of manipulating the image in a normal way, not changing the pixels.