Quotes About Control

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

O sadismo, se o reduzirmos ao princípio fundamental que o norteia, pouco mais será do que o desejo de vincar indelevelmente, e da maneira mais inequívoca e extrema, a marca da própria personalidade sobre as coisas e os seres do mundo exterior.

I'll quote Napoleon. He stated that the most important thing in military training is discipline. Without discipline an army becomes a mob.

Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.

blow your trump— blister your lungs!—Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller shuts his watergate upon the stream!

intended to subserve. That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible

and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me

the only real owner of anything is its commander;

If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die. True, you may say that, by exceeding caution, you may possibly escape these and the multitudinous other evil chances of life. But handle Queequeg's monkey-rope heedfully as I would, sometimes he jerked it so, that I came very near sliding overboard. Nor could I possibly forget that, do what I would, I only had the management of one end of it.

You is sharks, sartin; but if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned.

1.-Un pez atado pertenece a quien lo ató. 2.-Un pez suelto es presa para cualquiera que lo atrape.

This warp seemed necessity; and here, thought I, with my own hand I ply my own shuttle and weave my own destiny into these unalterable threads.

Çünkü melek dediÄŸin kendini s?k? s?k? dizginleyen bir köpek bal???ndan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

I. A Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it. II. A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it. But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it.

And concerning all these, is not Possession the whole of the law?

By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.

Is it, thought Captain Delano, that this hapless man is one of those paper captains I've known, who by policy wink at what by power they cannot put down? I know no sadder sight than a commander who has little of command but the name.

Something shot from my dilated nostrils, he has inhaled it in his lungs. Starbuck is now mine; cannot oppose me now, without rebellion.

You can't assume a goddamned thing in this Navy.

It's a great mistake to think dictators are all-powerful! They're hobbled by their paper shufflers, like all politicians. More so, in a way.

So it is to Hitler. He has never moved when he couldn't get away with it.

It's not money, but what you can buy with it. Money is power. Money is security. Money is freedom.