Manipulation Quote Quotes & Sayings

Ask any child who failed to live up to his parents' idea of success, and you'll likely hear that they never felt good enough, or that their parents had expectations that they could not live up to. — Nancy Rose

You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up. — Tony Gilroy

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward. — Jane Austen

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We take simple preferences and turn them into conditions for our own happiness. — Richard Carlson

If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years. — Chen Guangbiao

The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one. — Juliana Berners

In short, between men and women you want ... "
"Equality."
"Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures."
"I said equality. I didn't say identity. — Victor Hugo

For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity leave, there's no pension. — Elizabeth Price

No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness. — Mahatma Gandhi

A part of me expects more of my only sister....Dorothy has always been exactly who she is, and for me to hope for anything better reminds me of a quote attributed to Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Dorothy is predictable. She does the same thing repeatedly and expects not a different result but the same one she got the last time she did whatever she wants with little regard for anyone else. So maybe she's the sane one.... — Patricia Cornwell

If kindness and compassion opens the door to manipulation, it is time to take your business elsewhere. — Charles F. Glassman

if a man always says no, he shall never say yes — Thien Nguyen

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

No! No!" the star crackled desperately. "That's wrong! I'm supposed to die!" "But I could save you if you'd let me catch you," Michael told it gently. "No!" cried the star. "I'd rather die!" It dived away from Michael's fingers. Michael plunged for it, but it was too quick for him. It swooped for the nearest marsh pool, and the black water leaped into a blaze of whiteness for just an instant. Then there was a small, dying sizzle. When Sophie hobbled over, Michael was standing watching the last light fade out of a little round lump under the dark water. "That was sad," Sophie said. — Diana Wynne Jones