Manipulation Quotes

Manipulation Quote of the day

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.

Get out of this office! I'll have no feelings here.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst

Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful.

True love is built on free will and free choice, not control and manipulation.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone].

In the age of facebookerism and tweeterism, people have been manipulated to behave foolishly. " Look at me, i am here" culture has thrived.

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.

The time we spend caring about people and loving them could have also been used for manipulating and seducing.

Sure, the outcome was favourable, but what was the cost? Wasn't changing the way she felt about something not far from taking away her free will altogether?

moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

If money is the root of all evil, then China's manipulation of its currency, the yuan, is the tap root of everything wrong with the U.S.-China trade relationship.

Move away from Machiavellian hearts. Manipulative people can frame you up even if you have a humble, simple and generous heart. Question their motive. ~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy

Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.

I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

Honesty is the only trick to not trick anyone.

God himself had sent me away. I was truly now among the damned.

Gender roles suck, " says Swift Fox.Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless.

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.

I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.

My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up.

To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.

He wants you for parts.

Iona stared at me for a long time. “You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride.

Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women.

Tell any grizzled old cutthroat a sob story about a double-cross and a broken heart and he'll eat right out of your hand.

..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.

That day I swore to never manipulate anyone again. Even if I believed I was doing good--for who am I to presume what is good for others?

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind, same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.

Don't plant a seed just a day before you need the fruit. ~ Aarush Kashyap

Emotions manipulates the man more than habits do.

And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.

Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras, doesn't know what life on ethereal astral plane is like.

To break yourself loose from the dominion, rulership and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).

Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!

To dream" means to focus and zoom the photos of destiny called visions for clearer view, manipulation and exploitation.

Today's truth will be tomorrow's lie and you will be left questioning your own sanity.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.