Quotes About Manipulation And Love

#1. When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.

Philippe Petit

#2. I've been doing this a long time- manipulating people to get my way. That's why you think you love me. Because I've broken you down and built you back up to believe it. It wasn't an accident. Once you leave this behind ... you'll see that. -Caleb

C.J. Roberts

#3. I simply love Drosera plants! Those tentacles, I love those tentacles...

~ Aarush Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#4. When you love yourself you won't need to ask God if someone is being honest with you. You will know already because you wouldn't have asked him if you had the self confidence to know how people should treat you.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. I'm sorry we mistook emotional manipulation for love.

M..

#6. I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ... what a total thrill.

Karen Mason

#7. The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don't like it, actually.

Bono

#8. Love can be used to drain people. Through eye contact people send a cord out to drain you long distance. Through sexual manipulation, anyone who can make you like them can drain you.

Frederick Lenz

#9. The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

Kate Millett

#10. Love is not some tool for manipulation. Love is a gift - love is from God. Love means everything.

Siri Mitchell

#11. 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.

Kresley Cole

#12. even admirable human desires for love, for belonging, and for meaning can be manipulated by unscrupulous individuals to benefit themselves

Noah Berlatsky

#13. When will women become civilized enough to stop mistreating men? When will they cease from training their lovers to become providers, merely because they have the power to do so?
As long as they continue as they are, men have no alternative to polygamy.

Esther Vilar

#14. We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

Tim O'Reilly

#15. My brother, Chris Massey from 'Zoey 101', was acting first at a young age. I just followed in my sibling's footsteps.

Kyle Massey

#16. Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one.

Rumi

#17. I guess the higher up on the food chain you go, the admiration isn't just for the hungry, but for the ones that go the extra mile to take a bite.

Angela Richardson

#18. Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully.

Joyce Brothers

#19. It's all connected with the belief human love is conditional. But human love isn't conditional. No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it's just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

Donald Miller

#20. It's usually better to focus on partying and let the other stuff take care of itself.

Andrew W.K.

#21. He remarked that thinking often spoils everything and that evil usually begins with our thoughts.

Brother Lawrence

#22. Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

Garry Trudeau

#23. From beginning to end, all this phony relationship can offer you is a toxic combination of fake love and real abuse. He constructs the psychopathic bond through deception and manipulation. You maintain it through self-sacrifice and denial.

Claudia Moscovici

#24. Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.

Michael Bassey

#25. The words "I love you" could contain all the bloodthirsty despair of the abattoir, all the hopelessness of the most isolated, frozen gulag, all the lurid sadness of death row.

Pat Conroy

#26. If you're trying to change someone you love, you don't love them. It's the oddnesses, the most unique imperfections that you'd miss the most. That's the stuff you can't replace. Everything else is easy to come by.

Crystal Woods

#27. Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.

Percy Sledge

#28. To be completely honest about your flaws is the only liberation from feelings of inferiority, inadequacy and external manipulation. Your happiness is only a change of conviction away.

Crystal Evans

#29. Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

Orson Scott Card

#30. If you think he's supposed to be different from what he is, you don't love him. In that moment you love who he's going to be when you're through manipulating him. He is a throwaway until he matches your image of him.

Byron Katie

#31. Love without sacrifice is like theft

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Ken Poirot

#33. Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.

Gina Maranto

#34. At a deep psychological level, convincing young people that they will get the respect, admiration, love that they are looking for through consumerism is a manipulation of a deep human instinct to want to belong.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#35. How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?

Matt Groening