Quotes About Control

It is hard to force obedience," he said, "without encouraging resentment.

We make oaths, we make choices, but fate makes our decisions.

Alfred was obsessed by order, obsessed by the task of marshaling life's chaos into something that could be controlled. He would do it by the church and by the law, which are much the same thing, but I wanted to see a pattern in the strands of life. In the end I found one, and it had nothing to do with any god, but with people. With the people we love.

The Gods play games with us, but if we open ourselves then we can become a part of the game instead of its victims.

My father tried to control you and said it couldn't be done. He also advised me never to underestimate you. He said you look stupid but act clever. I thought it was the other way around, lord.

It's hard to force obedience without encouraging resentment.

Fate is inexorable. It grips us like a harness.

Fate, Merlin always said, is inexorable

The spinners were watching me, waiting, needles poised, and unless I did their bidding then my fate would be failure.

It is as though life slows. The enemy moves as if he is wading in mud, but I was kingfisher fast. There is rage, but it is a controlled rage, and there is joy, the joy that the poets celebrate when they speak of battle, and a certainty that death is not in that day's fate.

we cannot decree what we would wish. Making an oath is like steering a course, but if the winds and tides of fate are too strong, then the steering oar losses its power.

It was fate, I thought. Just fate. We think we control our own lives, but the gods play with us like children playing with straw dolls.

He liked to see men cowed and frightened, for that made them biddable, and Sergeant Hakeswill was always at his happiest when he was in control of unhappy men.

The art of war is to make the enemy do our bidding.

We're not puppets in God's hands. We are his instruments. We earn our fate.

Because fate cannot be cheated, it governs us, and we are all its slaves.

The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.

my goals are extreme and therefore I moderate and measure my means.

The analysis object model consists of entity, boundary, and control objects [Jacobson et al., 1999]. Entity objects represent the persistent information tracked by the system. Boundary objects represent the interactions between the actors and the system. Control objects are in charge of realizing use cases.

You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.