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Quotes About Control

The movement was in me, but it wasn't me. It was another little something, a someone, willfully choosing to flex his flippery future arms, or whatever it was he had by then. It was a choice, but I hadn't made it. It was inside me, and mine, but I did not control it.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
She's stepped right in and owned me, and yet, it does not feel like surrender. There is choice inside surrender. This is something much more basic.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
He had lost his child; he knew how fast things could spin out of control. He knew a person could lose anything in half a heartbeat.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
But the good guy knew the monster was there. He chose to drink. He chose to let it out. He liked it. And I doubt he quit liking it.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
Her father evicts Vina from her body when he makes her body a bad place to be. He is killing Vina in those minutes, and he believes he has this right. Emily Birch is now deep inside the Second South. Her family helped make it, and her father has maintained it. He is it, and she is him.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
It's like Paul on the road to Damascus. Here's this anal-retentive control freak who likes to run around and persecute Christians. So God knocks him down and blinds him and reams him out. So he stops persecuting Christians. But—go read him. He was still an anal-retentive control freak.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
They were the first who understood that all that was possible was a truth shared by the dominant people, the group or subgroup or family in power.
~ Joshua Cohen
Principal's no different from the rest—he orders and so he is.
~ Joshua Cohen
Death is the only monopoly. Nothing can compete.
~ Joshua Cohen
crime is like a fire you must smother it before it gets out of hand
~ Joshua Crosier
Intelligent people are not always guided by their intelligence.Sometimes fear is a little more powerful.
~ Joshua Ferris
Panic isn't the fear of danger, but the fear you can't control your fear, and
~ Joshua Halberstam
Long ago, I conquered my anger and placed it in my pocket. When I have need of it, I take it out.
~ Joshua Halberstam
We are only underlings of fate if we choose to let the wills of others shape our lives." -Thomas Richards
~ Josi S. Kilpack
Estamos sujetos al destino solo si elegimos permitir que las voluntades de los demás den forma a nuestras vidas.
~ Josi S. Kilpack
and to be in charge of life is always an occasion for loyalty.
~ Josiah Royce
There will always be a boogie man. Politicians need one.
~ Josie Brown
I'm used to seducing and then killing men when they are at their most vulnerable. Tonight, though, it is me who is fighting the urge to surrender.
~ Josie Brown
new world order
~ Josie Brown
Dragon was controlling himself admirably but he had the look of a man who has found something unpleasant on his boot.
~ Josie Litton
I wanted her under me, helpless to do anything but endure as I possessed her in every possible way. I wanted her moans, her screams, the sweet contractions of her cunt as it convulsed at the nexus of pain and pleasure so intense as to shatter her. I wanted to lick her tears from the curve of her cheek, hold her as she shook from the force of what I made her feel and then, when she had calmed a little, begin all over again.
~ Josie Litton
You will bend," I said. "For me, whenever and however I wish." My breath catching, I added, "But you will never break. You're far too strong for that and besides, I won't let you.
~ Josie Litton
The heart is a fist. It pockets prayer or holds rage.
~ Joy Harjo
Money fixes everything, even nature, if there is enough of it.
~ Joy Nicholson