Greg Brenneman Quotes

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle.

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

I say never trust a man who combs his hair so as to cover his shiny dome and then flaunts a wife young enough to be his daughter. Oh, Trump has issues all right.

Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.

Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to advance someone's own interests, which creates cynicism.

To be stripped of your freedom, to be stripped of your dignity and the respect you once had, to lose it all and then see life pass you by while you're sitting inside a prison cell, to wake up one day and get it all back - it's a very humbling feeling.

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers are always selling somebody out.

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good.

Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.

Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.