Machinations Quotes

“With the characteristic cunning of true love, she was already manipulating the future.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“NO MACHINATIONS CAN STOP THE MANEUVERS OF THE EARTH”
― J. Lepika

“The more complex your lives become with intellectual machinations, piles of paper, and social intrigue, the less you are aware of the Simplicity of the Moment.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“It is possible that even the war itself has been only one further move,” he said with elegant, understated precision, “in some greater game.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Revenge of the Sith[SW REVENGE OF THE SITH M/TV][Mass Market Paperback]

“The Chancellor played his hand very well,” Bail said. He spoke the word chancellor with some venom, and Ahsoka knew it gave him great satisfaction not to say emperor when they were in private. “He kept us so busy jumping at shadows that we didn’t notice which of the shadows was real.”
― E.K. Johnston, Ahsoka