Manipulate Quotes · Page 3

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

— Bethenny Frankel

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

— Bob Goff

“Islamophobia is a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.”

— Anonymous

“If you can manipulate people, you can make them do anything.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

— Leslie Lamport

To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.

— Susan Stewart

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to…

— Erich Fromm

When you're young, you can be mislead by older people, who know how to manipulate you.

— Garrett Clayton

You must discriminate between those who claim to help you and only want to manipulate you and those who are free, who…

— Frederick Lenz

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition.…

— R. A. Salvatore

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended…

— Karen Abbott

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them…

— Dean Koontz

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment…

— Jared Diamond

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly…

— Simon Sinek

I would frankly be shocked if Donald Trump even knows how to use chopsticks or is even able to manipulate them with…

— Anthony Bourdain

God does not want to control you, or stifle you, or manipulate you, or force you to do anything you don't want…

— Matthew Kelly

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other…

— Rob Bell

The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual…

— Herbert Marcuse

Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are…

— David Crystal

Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose…

— Anonymous

Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate…

— Judith Jones

If you're blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies,…

— Wayne Dyer

This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People…

— Michael Lerner

Guys are stimulated easily. They are easy to manipulate. All you have to do is wear a sexy outfit.

— Jessica Alba

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

— Julie Delpy

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

— John Stossel

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

— Anonymous

I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions.

— Sarah Kane

I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling…

— Jay Mohr

Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.

— Angelique Kidjo

“When you know what someone wants, it's easy to manipulate them.”

— Nora Sakavic

In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.

— Jean-Pierre Dardenne

The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

— Laszlo Bock

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

— David Henrie

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

— Joseph Wambaugh

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

— Guy Davenport

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

— David Anthony Durham