Quotes About Maneuvering

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

I had the feeling that if she could have moved all around me, been in front and behind and on both sides at once, that was what she would do. She would close me off, she would peer into me until she found whatever she wanted, and got it rearranged.

PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.

I'm not quite Machiavellian enough to set him up, but if he strays too close to the edge I might give him a nudge.

And before you interrupt me, Colin, you're probably one of them. He had you twisted round his little finger.

If you're putting the puck in an awkward place for someone, that's right away, advantage: you.

I get off on pushing people's buttons sometimes.

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

I knew Saleh well, having interviewed and met with him several times. He was a professional Machiavelli, fluent in all forms for political maneuvering.

We all just use each other in one way or another. To feel good. To feel bad. To feel nothing at all. The lucky ones are real good at it.

Feints within feints within feints.

Only the puppet masters were important. How the puppets moved—that told you what the puppet masters were doing.

So you know how to make a democracy do whatever you want." A gloating expression. "The technique is quite subtle but easy. You create a system where most people are dissatisfied, vaguely or deeply.

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

Ideolog na czworakach kieruje swoje deklaracje wreszcie do w?a?ciwej cz??ci cia?a tych, których próbuje przekona?.

She would bring him back to us as docile as a sheep. 'Women,' I concluded rather bitterly, 'have at their command certain means of persuasion which the best- organized police forces do not possess.

Mrs. Gibson has got her way all her life by leaving things to people's consciences.

Success in politics is the art of the timely lie.

Someone is always feeding fat off everything you don't know.

Problems that seem under control through manipulation tend to reappear somewhere else, but with greater severity than they were before.

Which was, that as soon as Miss Emily was marriageable, she would endeavour, either by fair means, or foul, to get her into her hands: And if she did, but for one week, she should the next come out the wife of a man she had in view, who would think half the fortune more than sufficient for himself, and make over the other half to her; and then she should come into her right, which she deems to be half of the fortune of which her husband died possessed.

When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.

The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.