Quotes About Control

Åžu ikisi d???nda istediÄŸiniz her ÅŸeyi yapmaya muktedirsiniz: GerçekliÄŸi yaratamazs?n?z. Var olan gerçekliÄŸi yok edemezsiniz.

Es cierto que hay cientos de pilotos que vuelan sin temor, en medio de oscuras noches y sobre kilómetros de neblina, pero su tranquilidad no proviene del saber y del control sino de una fe ciega en ese conjunto de piezas de metal que

for your limitations,    and sure enough,          they're       yours.

Ich war gerade nahe daran, zu erkennen, daß man jeden durchschauen kann, wenn man einen Knüppel oder Schraubenzieher hat, der groß genug ist.

when you work for the Government, the Government is twice as aware that you're alive

I am compliance itself—when I am not thwarted;—no one more easily led—when I have my own way.

Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.

Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.

El ahora es lo único que tenemos, y el único tiempo sobre el que tenemos algún control.

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

Words are our servants, not our masters.

There is in every village a torch – the teacher: and an extinguisher – the clergyman. VICTOR HUGO

most of us believe the welfare state is highly desirable. But you cannot have an unnatural welfare state, unless you also have unnatural birth control; otherwise, the end result will be misery even greater than that which obtains in nature.

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple.

James Dobson, founder of today's infamous 'Focus on the Family' movement,fn1 is equally acquainted with the principle: 'Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience – what they see, hear, think, and believe – will determine the future course for the nation.'78

Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience – what they see, hear, think, and believe – will determine the future course for the nation.

Genes are the primary policy-makers; brains are the executives.

But, alas, nobody anticipated the United States Department of Homeland Security.

The placebo effect is well documented and not even very mysterious. Dummy pills, with no pharmacological activity at all, demonstrably improve health. That is why double-blind drug trials must use placebos as controls. It's why homoeopathic remedies appear to work, even though they are so dilute that they have the same amount of active ingredient as the placebo control – zero molecules.

The same glucose ration was scrupulously administered to all the flasks equally.

The human brain, and the body that it controls, cannot do more than one or a few things at once. If a meme is to dominate the attention of a human brain, it must do so at the expense of 'rival' memes.

He had the sense that the gods was just another name for time, but he felt that it would be as stupid to say such a thing as it would be to suggest that against the gods we can never prevail.

To control the deaths of others - when, where, the craft of ensuring it was a cleanly sliced ending - that was possible. And in some strange way, such killing felt like controlling whatever remained of his own life.