Quotes About Control

Never question the sanity of a woman who can render you defenseless with a look.

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

You wouldn't let him do it, would you, Jamie? Jamie's expression was very serene. She stared at Andrew when she spoke to her husband. With your permission, I would like to answer him. You have it, Alec replied. Andrew, she called out in a voice as cold and clear as a frigid winter morning, my husband does whatever he wishes to do. I am sometimes allowed to help, though. If he decides to cut off your feet, I will, of course, offer him my assistance.

He who controls the remote, controls the world

Every man has a weakness, he patiently explained. I'll find theirs, I promise you. Every man? Yes, he answered emphatically. His hand moved to the back of her neck. Twisting her curls around his fist, he jerked her head back. His face loomed over hers, his breath warm and sweet as he stared down into her eyes. What is your weakness, Brodick? she asked. You.

the Scots take what they want when they want it. She also said they have special preferences." "And what might those be?" Beak asked. "Strong horses, fat sheep, and soft women," Mary said. "Horses, sheep, and women?

She was more frightened of the stallion than she was of the Baron.

Like it or not, she was going to belong to him.

She had already learned two very unpleasant things about her husband. One: he didn't like being questioned or contradicted. That was going to be a problem

You kill a cockroach, Pete. You don't domesticate him.

The plan was changed now, whether he liked it or not, for he knew with a certainty that both amazed and infuriated him, that he'd never let Madelyne go.

Because the only way to resist, our husbands had taught us, was by not resisting.

Testosterone is the world's most dangerous drug. Get one molecule on you and you're helpless.

We cannot directly choose our emotions and switch them on but we can use the things we can control to change how we feel.

We're all trapped in a net of consequences, condemned to paths outside our control. It's the way of things.

Prophecies don't simply come about of themselves, you know. They need a little helping along.

I worked as fast as I could, and let my mind travel ahead only a certain distance, no further.

Amazing, I thought nobody could tell that man what to do. -Foalan to Bridei Talking about Broichan

Take control. Tell everyone what's going to happen and stick to the plan, whatever it is.

If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable.

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.

Mao's rule was best understood in terms of a medieval court, in which he exercised spellbinding power over his courtiers and subjects. He was also a maestro at 'divide and rule', and at manipulating men's inclination to throw others to the wolves.

Meetings were an important means of Communist control. They left people no free time, and eliminated the private sphere. The pettiness which dominated them was justified on the grounds that prying into personal details was a way of ensuring thorough soul-cleansing. In fact, pettiness was a fundamental characteristic of a revolution in which intrusiveness and ignorance were celebrated, and envy was incorporated into the system of control.

It was all too clear that Cixi was the only person who could hold the empire together.