Lying Manipulating Quotes & Sayings

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it. — Stella Benson

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist. — George Burns

The ones with the most generous social provisions are the northern European countries: Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway. These are export-oriented, surplus economies with sound fiscal balances and strong social safety nets. The claim that Europe's fiscal mess is the result of overly generous social welfare systems simply cannot be substantiated. — Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh

Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath
and the God of Nature too. If you can't see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world. — Sam Harris

And those who saw, it did surprise,
Such drops could fall from human eyes. — George Gordon Byron

His job already had him lying and manipulating me. My past had me lying and manipulating him. Both of us thought we were right. — Lisa Gardner

For the love of all that is holy, just give me a straight-up, stand-up sword fight! I hate court intrigue and all the closet-hiding, eavesdropping, secret-liaisoning, lying, and manipulating, who's-watching-who-watching-who bastards that bow and scrape and simper as they slip arsenic into your claret. You can't tell your friends from your enemies from one day to the next. - Stephano De Guichen — Margaret Weis

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low. — Samuel Goldwyn

A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface of an ocean. What is the difference between the information carried in the words of a novel and the information carried on the waves of the sea? Listen, and the waves will speak, and someday, I tell you, you will write your thoughts on the surface of the sea. — Douglas Preston

First, you're sorry for invading my privacy for years, years before I even knew you existed. Second, you're sorry for kidnapping me, isolating, controlling me, and manipulating me. Third, you're sorry for lying to me, pretending you cared and oh yearh, marrying me. Fourth, listen carefully Tony, this is the big one ... you're sorry for framing me for attempted murder, resulting in incarceration in a federal penitentiary."
"I am deeply sorry for one and four. I did provide you with an alternative destination for number four. I am not proud of two, but three would never have happened without it. I am not, and never will be sorry for three. And, for the record, I never lied about or pretended to love you. I didn't realize it at first, but I have loved you since before you knew my name. And, you forgot our divorce. I am sincerely sorry for that also. — Aleatha Romig

Oh well, this is only temporary. Everything will be better someday. I'll make it better. After all, I'm young yet. — Betty Smith

Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying. — Linda Ellerbee

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. — Neil Peart

We pass through Time from birth in order to have from where to come, together with death. — Sorin Cerin

My only politics have been friendship. — Jean Cocteau

You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it. — Myles Horton

I am definitely in the right place doing the right thing. These are the rewards. — Frankie Knuckles

Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you, illuminate you, put make up on you or use a filter, am I not manipulating reality? The only difference is that now I can do it from the computer in the postclick instead of the preclick. If I decide to photograph something instead of something else, I also manipulate reality. Of course a photograph can lie or commit abuse, but it always could. — Pedro Meyer

Don't write a book for an audience, write what you want to write and then find its audience — Sue Greensmith

Manipulating situations is one thing, but lying is another. My theory (especially with girls) is that if you don't lie, you can't be held responsible for anything bad that goes down. — Lauren Barnholdt

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. — Ann Radcliffe

We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding the world at a nano-level as we lie back in our hammocks, attended by our robot servants. I don't believe a word of it, and I'm not sure many of us do. — Paul Kingsnorth