Quotes About Control

It would be sheer hell to be privy to thoughts and memories without some power to control and block. I don't like to pry into personal thoughts. And it hurts

The rage worked under her cheer. It was always there, whispering to her. But she could control it. She'd controlled it for years. Because she was smart, smarter than all of them.

You have power over a powerful man. His love for you gives you the power, though I suspect there are times the two of you fight like cats.

Shut up. If you don't shut up, if you don't cease resisting immediately, I will pull your tongue out of your mouth, drag it around your neck, and strangle you with it.

was, Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People. And it's true enough. But a gun gives them a hell of a lot of help.

Why would I kill someone I don't know, when I know so many people who irritate me, and haven't killed any of them?

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion. —TACITUS

Replicating human beings in a lab, selecting traits, eliminating others. Who decides what are the parameters? What of the failures, as there must be in any sort of experimentation of procedures.

Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I'm not your weakness. I'm your goddamn weapon.

to shut you down, until further notice." "So I assumed.

So, the choreographer's the one telling everybody to change their balls. And all the rest. That's key when you've got a musical deal with the singing and dancing. You've got a big bunch of people to coordinate. It's like . . . artistic crowd control.

power doesn't just corrupt in the wrong hands, it mutilates.

Sex was a powerful tool to use or have used against you. Both of these women had wanted to wield it, to control it. In the end, it had killed them.

Fate rules, Eve. You follow the steps, and you plan and you work, then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or outguess it, but most often it's already written.

Even on an image, Eve could see this was a man who hunted down what or who he wanted, bagged it, used it, and didn't bother with frivolities such as trophies. And yes, she thought, this was a man who could kill if and when it suited him. He would do so coolly, methodically, and without breaking a sweat.

scripture to his own ends." Mira set her empty cup aside. "He

politics?" "A necessary evil that on rare occasions works without corruption, abuse, and waste.

You're an arrogant woman, Eve. Just one more aspect of you that I find attractive. It's arrogant to assume responsibility for events beyond our control.

Suicide, I had understood, is an act not of body against itself but of the will against the body

Auf den Stachel des Begehrens haben wir nur eine Antwort: fangen, einschließen, festhalten.

Es soll keine Geheimnisse mehr geben, sagen die neuen Überwachungstheoretiker und meinen damit etwas recht Interessantes: dass die Ära, in der Geheimnisse zählten, in der Geheimnisse ihre Macht über das Leben von menschen ausüben konnten [...], vorbei ist; nicht, was sich zu wissen lohnt, kann nicht innerhalb von Sekunden und ohne großen Aufwand aufgedeckt werden; das Privatleben ist im Grunde ein Ding der Vergangenheit.

Worte entfremden. Sprache ist kein Medium für Begehren. Begehren ist Hingerissensein, nicht Austausch. Nur dadurch, dass die Sprache das Begehrte entfremdet, beherrscht sie es.

Das Rechtschreibprogramm kann nicht denken [...]. Wenn Sie es dem Rechtschreibprogramm überlassen, über ihr Leben zu bestimmen, dann könnten Sie auch gleich würfeln.