Quotes About Control

There was a definite feel about Adora Belle Dearheart that a lid was only barely holding down an entire womanful of anger.

The whole of life was a game. But if it was a game, then were you the player or were you the pawn?

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone's mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

It's all about balance, do you see? Balance is the trick. Keep the balance and - she stopped. You've ridden on a seesaw? One end goes up, one end goes down. But the bit in the middle, that stays where it is. Upness and downness go right through it. Don't matter how high or low the ends go, it keeps the balance. She sniffed. Magic is mostly movin' stuff around.

It is amazing what people will obey, if a clear and confident voice is used

Oh, don't be absurd, man.' The Prime Minister sat back in his chair. 'Come on. We can't just ban a thing because we can't control it.' The minister responsible for health and safety looked startled. 'I don't see why not. It's never stopped us before.

Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants—the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare from becoming a mere lower-class brawl.

Right at the bottom, at the tip of the root, is the fear of the dark and the cold, but once you've given darkness a name you have a measure of control. Or at least you think you have, which is nearly as important.

Les choses ne nous arrivent pas, c'est nous qui arrivons aux choses

EMOTIONS GET LEFT BEHIND, IT'S ALL A MATTER OF GLANDS.

Sometimes when your life seems most out of control, you know there's a direction. I don't mean you can't have free will--in fact, that can be the most important part.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

Restraint is the steel partition between a rational mind and a violent one.

How do we not fall into a perpetual state of despair? My father said to me the other day, We have to stare it down. IT being grief. IT being everything he can't control like age, the waning strength of his legs, or the loss of another son.

Society thinks of violent acts as manifestations of evil or immorality. We're told we have ultimate control over our own behavior, that each and every one of us has the free will to choose not to hurt another human being. But it's not just morality that guides us. Biology does as well. Our frontal lobs helps us integrate thoughts and actions. They help us weight the consequences of those actions. Without such control, we'd give in to every wild impulse.

But death wouldn't deter her killer. It would whet his appetite. He'd look at her corpse and see only an object of desire. Someone he can control. She doesn't resist him. She is cool, passive flesh, yielding to any and all indignities. She is the perfect lover. The

Güç sahibi olmak, onu yitirmekten sürekli korkmak demekti.

Think of what it means to manually strangle someone. How personal it is. The close contact. Skin to skin. Your hands against her flesh. Pressing her throat as you feel her life drain away.' Rizzoli

By taking the womb, he defeminizes his victim. He steals her power.

He's a drill sergeant

Then they'd both watch him get drunk. Family values, that's what he called it, what he threw in Julianne's face whenever she tried to leave him. Family values was a threat, the cudgel he used to keep them forever locked with him in battle.

Do not let your anger misguide you, my friend.

There is a Zen story about a man riding a horse that is galloping very quickly. Another man, standing alongside the road, yells at him, Where are you going? and the man on the horse yells back, I don't know. Ask the horse. I think that is our situation. We are riding many horses that we cannot control.

But a lot of our thinking is caught up in dwelling on the past, trying to control the future, generating misperceptions, and worrying about what others are thinking.