Quotes About Control

Anger is what we feel when we're helpless.

Secrets. We think by keeping them, we're controlling things, but all the while, they're controlling us.

The lust for power is combustible thing

If you were really God, you would have stopped him. God starts things, Man stops them

Gradually, I had to face the fact that I could not control everything, no matter how fast my eyes darted from spot to spot. This was hard. I am not good at being vulnerable, Chika, or relying on the Lord to handle it all.

We can't play God." "Why not? God isn't doing anything about it.

If you were really God," I seethed, "you would have stopped him." He looked to the sea and shook his head. "God starts things," he said. "Man stops them.

God starts things," he said. "Man stops them.

Memendam amarah adalah racun. Ia menggerogotimu dari dalam.

From the perspective of the world's national security apparatuses you exist in several locations. You appear on property and income-tax registries, on passport and ID card databases. You show up on passenger manifests and telephone logs . . . You are fingertip swirls, facial ratios, dental records, voice patterns, spending trails, e-mail threads.

ambitious cleric position: "Religion makes us all equal; only I decide what religion says.

It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK? ( Getting Control of the Frontier , Gainsville Sun, March 22, 1995)

Don't worry," said Ma, "I will deal with this." She wobbled her head in a way that suggested she already had things under control. "I will deal with your father, okay?

Because it shortens the odds against us," said Sandor. "It affords us the opportunity to take control. Because what we do not know controls us.

But certain others, they move in and make themselves at home and start flapping their arms in the story you make of your life. They have a wingspan.

mental influence over others, and in some cases such mental influence might be a good one, but it is the motive which makes it evil.

For in truth habit is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress. She establishes in us, little by little, stealthily, the foothold of her authority; but having by this mild and humble beginning settled and planted it with the help of time, she soon uncovers to us a furious and tyrannical face against which we no longer have the liberty of even raising our eyes.

Kanunlar doÄŸru olduklar? için deÄŸil, kanun olduklar? için yürürlükte kal?rlar. Kendilerini dinletmeleri ak?ld??? bir güçten gelir, baÅŸka bir ÅŸeyden deÄŸil. (..) Kanunlardan daha çok, daha a??r, daha geniÅŸ haks?zl?klara yol açan ne vard?r?

Pues la costumbre, verdaderamente es una violenta y traidora institutriz. Poco a poco y con disimulo, establece en nosotros el pie de su autoridad; pero tras este suave y humilde comienzo, una vez asentado y plantado con ayuda del tiempo, pronto nos revela un talante furioso y tiránico contra el que no podemos ya ni alzar la mirada.

Inevitably the real garden with a growing family of children will be untidy, messy even, noisy and often destructive. It drives arch control freaks like myself mad. But I hate it when they are not there.2

Electrical motors used in mobile robots are controlled by modifying the voltage applied to the motors using a technique called pulse width modulation. In many educational robots, control algorithms such as those described in Chap. 6, are used to ensure that the motors rotate at a specified target speed.

The power that created me would not have given me such a capacity for feeling pleasure if I weren't meant to use it, Evleen whispered to the man who sat rapt beneath her touch. Your religion wants dominion over our bodies because sex is the one ecstasy they can't control, and they are threatened by any rapture other than that they offer.

Who can doubt that there is an American empire?—an "informal" empire, not colonial in polity, but still richly equipped with imperial paraphernalia: troops, ships, planes, bases, proconsuls, local collaborators, all spread around the luckless planet. —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Cycles of American History (1984)

Like all empires, the harsh and violent forms of control that have been used on the "wretched of the earth," have migrated back to the homeland in a time of decay to keep the population in check. The tyranny we have imposed on others is now being imposed on us.