Quotes About Maneuvering

Why am I letting you comfort me?" He stared over her head. Because I've made sure you have no one else to turn to.

Their focus becomes to play politics

you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

They are practised politicians, every man of them, and skilled to adjust those preliminary measures, which steal from the people, without its knowledge, the power of choosing its own rulers.

Cormac was completely aware that he was being manipulated, but how he could not see. He reckoned that when he did find out, the surprise would be a nasty one. That was how it usually went.

They will find whatever button will make you dance, and dance you will, no matter how hideous the tune.

Cunning people find other people to drown for them.

We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince others it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

Uncertainties are often useful in paralyzing an opponent's plans and actions

A man, I'd sometimes thought, who would apologize for the inconvenience as he broke your neck.

Diplomacy was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

Cea mai buna cale de a manipula oamenii este sa le spui ce vor sa auda.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

The dwarf has played her like a set of pipes, and she is too deaf to hear the tune.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.

The Marquis de Carabas always had a plan, and he always had a fallback plan; and beneath these plans he always had a real plan, one that he would not even let himself know about, for when the original plan and the fallback plan had both gone south.

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you.

The Communists are superb liars. They are quite capable of delivering a fat lie so convincingly, or at least vehemently, that even their victim will later apologize for having erred.

It is said that true tricstkers can make trouble between two pans in a kitchen.

Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

scripture to his own ends." Mira set her empty cup aside. "He

symphaths treated everything like a chess match—right down to the moment they captured your king, turned your queen into a whore, and burned down your castles.

Ultimately, a running back has to get rid of tacklers without his blockers being a part of it.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.