Classic Manipulator Quotes & Sayings

And i temporary and he was the saddest word of all there is nothing else in the world its not despair until time its not even time until it was — William Faulkner

I just wanna thank all those amazing Internet bloggers out there that hate me day-to-day. I love you! You rock! — Tori Spelling

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar. — Nick Cave

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. The god you worship is the god you deserve. — Joseph Campbell

It struck me that the beauty we attribute to children isn't something they have that we don't. It's something they do, which we have long since stopped doing - just describing things as we see them, the simple, unadorned facts. — Christina Carson

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. — Jasper Fforde

Where shame is, there is also fear. — John Milton

You're not crazy for loving someone who doesn't love you back. You're awesome. Keep loving. — Sarvesh Jain

When I first studied Billie Holiday's life story years ago, I admit that I was quite judgmental. — Rebecca Ferguson

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent. — N. T. Wright

Oh, people will come, Ray," Phillip intones, doing his best James Earl Jones. "People will most definitely come. — Jonathan Tropper

To borrow from Budd Schulberg's description of a media manipulator in his classic novel The Harder They Fall, I was "indulging myself in the illusions that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch." I no longer have those illusions. Winston Churchill wrote of the appeasers of his age that "each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last." I was even more delusional. I thought I could skip being devoured entirely. It would never turn on me. I was in control. I was the expert. But I was wrong. — Ryan Holiday

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it. — Greg Iles

Grace could not have done it's curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work. — Tullian Tchividjian

It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless. — Rachel Johnson