Quotes About Control

Still, Marcus was acutely aware that he served at Hadrian's pleasure. In a state ruled absolutely by one man, no matter how enlightened that man might be, every other man was at his mercy.

Forward-looking Western foreign policy makers also have to be cognizant of the enormous leverage China's control of Tibet gives it over the mountain sources of the great rivers, and therefore the economic and political fate, of Southeast Asia.

Evidence suggests that the tendency to believe in conspiracy theories is driven by motives that can be characterized as epistemic (needing to understand one's environment), existential (needing to feel safe and in control of one's environment), and social (needing to maintain a positive image of oneself and one's in-group) (Douglas et al., 2017).

It is not only in medicine that persons in authority will resist any investigation that might reduce their authority.

The struggle in the seventh century between Roman missionaries and Irish monks for control over the English church was largely a conflict over the date of Easter.

Everyone who believes in psychokinesis raise my hand.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

The cosmic joke to this project is that all of the groups donating DNA secretly programmed sequences to cause their genetic strand to be predominant. This set the precedent for eternal conflict. Humanity was doomed to fight and be controlled. No one group would ever be in charge. The project was doomed for failure before it even began!

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to known where the limits are.

none of it's real. Desire, power, money—none of it. They're just systems of control men came up with after they were done hunting and gathering.

Above Verity and Daniel, in the lounge of Low Mede, Peveral Othman watched Barbara and Louis make love on the rug before the log-effect gas fire. He took some satisfaction from their relief, from Louis' almost tearful gratitude for the body he now inhabited. Othman felt he should go and visit the Winters, although for some reason, he felt compelled to stay at Low Mede. He knew he would feel vulnerable beyond the walls. He was not strong enough at the moment to control Lily and Owen.

I have never seen anything like this," Bayard said. "It is…strange. I almost do not want this power-to make a man an animal.

The ways of men have no power over us.

He felt way powerful having a physical control over this man who had interfered in his life so adeptly. The control was that of seduction.

Nimnezzar knew Tiy was waiting for him to say something; the words that would act as a key to the lock upon her tongue. He had played this game in the past.

Lily could almost feel Barbara's itching desire to take her in hand, dress her up, give her a purpose in life.

Listen, don't bother trying to resist Varian. He is stronger than you. Let him amuse himself.

It was hard for her to equate this slim, beautiful young man with the scruffy yob she usually encountered. The transformation confused her, yet she sensed Owen was completely in control of how he appeared to people. That unnverved her. It made her think he was, therefore, not to be controlled by her.

I am a manipulative person, whom some might call evil, because I like to interfere in people's lives.

I will give you meat, Salamiel thought, and once you eat of my offerings, you will be mine.

There was a familiarity about Taziel's etheric body, which Shem realised he had picked up on vaguely in the Assembly Rooms. So Enniel had used this past lover to track him down. Aninka and Taziel: the avenging angels. Aninka was no problem-she was too hurt by Othman's betrayal-but Taziel was another matter. He sought to control Daniel. Shem smiled to himself as he thought of this. There was no way he'd let that happen.

Othman doesn't have a hold on me, just an unwelcome presence now and again.

Louis experienced a tremor of unease. He was at this man's mercy now.