Quotes About Control

Nobody can force you to smile, she says. -What? I ask. But I know she's not even talking to me, only to herself, as if she's the last person left in the room. -They can make you show your teeth, but what good is that? Nobody can make you smile against your will.

If it's the two men in suits with Bibles then he slams it shut to make sure not even one of their words enters into the hall.

the ground. Even his mouth was tied so that he couldn't

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.

I remember being stunned at the New York skyline as I drove over this big freeway, coming across the flats in Seacaucus. All of a sudden it was looming up in front of me and I almost lost control of the car. I thought it was a vision.

Assassins, like politicians and journalists, are not attracted to losers.

Turn up the radio. Turn up the tape machine. Look into the sunset up ahead. Roll the windows down for a better taste of the cool desert wind. Ah yes. This is what it's all about. Total control now. Tooling along the main drag on a Saturday night in Las Vegas, two good old boys in a fireapple-red convertible … stoned, ripped, twisted … Good People.

The Edge Ã¢â'¬Â¦ There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others—the living—are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.

The trick is to control them without any provocation, but outlaws are very easily provoked.

Omnibus Safe Streets & Crime Control Act of 1968, a genuinely

The idea is to show him that you were always in total control of yourself and your vehicle—while he lost control of everything.

But the fact that Segarra was exercising some sinister control over me began to get on my nerves. Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant, it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want.

But if McGovern loses in November, control of the Democratic Party will instantly revert to the Ole Boys, and McGovern himself will be labeled "another Goldwater" and stripped of any power in the party.

It is possible to make people contented with their servitude. You can provide them with endless amounts of distraction and propaganda.

Arrivés à ce point, nous nous trouvons devant une question très troublante. Désirons-nous vraiment agir ? Est-ce que la majorité de la population estime qu'il vaut bien la peine de faire des efforts considérables pour arrêter et si possible renverser la tendance actuelle vers le contrôle totalitaire et intégral ?

All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own pattern ms and influence other people's, the weak have their courses mapped out for them. The weak and the unlucky, and the stupid.

It was, for the time being, an empty threat, and he must have sensed it also, for he laughed easily and with contempt. "You will do what your masters tell you to do, doctor. As do we all.

I (John Stone) have never had any great desire to abolish poverty or save fallen women; I am, and always have been, deeply suspicious of those who wish to do these things. They normally cause more harm than good and, in my experience, their desire for power, to control others, is very much greater than that of any businessman. p 455 Stone's Fall