Quotes About Control

It's an Event. Events bypass anger, straight to damage control.

Neal Shusterman

Scythe Anastasia took a deep breath of precisely 3,644 milliliters, and slowly released it.

Welcome to life as a god, Scythe Volta said to him. While behind them the building was burning to the ground.

We became unnatural the moment we conquered death

There are choices we make, choices that are made for us, and things we ignore long enough until all choices have fallen away.

If there was one thing she had learned, it was that monsters only had the power that you gave them.

The Thunderhead sees just about everything, what with cameras everywhere. But it also decides what infractions are worth the effort to address and which ones are not.

Por favor... - diz o garoto. [...] O que ele realmente esta dizendo é: por favor, seja humana. Com uma vida tão cheia de regras e controle, é tão fácil esquecer que é isso que eles são. Ela sabe - ela entende - com que frequência a compaixão é suplantada pela conveniência.

Here, here, seconded Scythe Rand. You can come to my room and break my neck any time.

The Thunderhead gave us a perfect world. The utopia that our ancestors could only dream of is our reality.

Por favor... - diz o garoto. [...] O que ele realmente está dizendo é: por favor, seja humana. Com uma vida tão cheia de regras e controle é tão fácil esquecer que é isso que eles são. Ela sabe - ela entende - com que frequência a compaixão é suplantada pela conveniência.

Hayden passes his hand back and forth over the flame. He doesn't move slowly enough to burn himself, but he does move slowly enough to feel the heat. Hayden notices Connor watching him. "It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow," Hayden says. "You can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if you're quick enough." "Are you a pyro?" Connor asks. "You're confusing boredom with obsession.

power comes infected with the only disease left to us: the virus called human nature

Yes, but an almost all-powerful entity can figure out a way to give me what I ask without breaking its own laws, can't it? Just a moment. Just a moment. Just a moment. Why am I seeing a beach ball?

I have found that building a sandbox around a domineering child, then allowing that child to preside over it, frees the adults to do the real work.

Somewhere behind Anastasia, Scythe Asimov summed it up best. We have just entered the worst of all possible worlds.

Once Xenocrates was gone, Goddard called out to the crowd, "Anyone who uploads pictures of High Blade Xenocrates in his underwear will be gleaned immediately!" And everyone laughed . . . then stopped when they realized he was not joking in the least.

All this to drive home the simple face that human government - whether it be dictatorship, monarchy, or government of the people, by the people, for the people - had to perish from the Earth. - The Thunderhead

There is a fine line between freedom and permission.

because no bill was, or would ever be, brought to a scythe.

Never hold a weapon when angry even if that weapon was a dinner knife.

But I'm not mad at Garrett, because I know this is not about him intentionally wasting water. It's that he's mesmerized by it. Not by the water itself, but by the sheer power to be able to make it flow, and make it stop with the simple flick of the wrist.

It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance