Quotes About Control

There had been no drones shadowing him in Canada, but apparently the United States was a different story. It was, as all the world knew, a completely insane and out-of-hand country, unable to control itself.

Tekla wanted to slap her so much that her hand actually twitched.

Problem is not aggression. It is lack of discipline. A person can be aggressive and still be constructive in society if she controls her passions.

One of my professors has interesting things to say about the similarity between the way organ pipes are controlled by keys and stops, and the way random-access memory bits are read by computers.

I know not what you mean. The weather does not make the day. We make the day, as suits us. This day it suits me to destroy the currency of the Realm. The weather is fine.

Boys, he said, only want to know two things: who is in charge, and what are the rules.

Now we're back in a situation where the people who have the power and the money can get what they want by dictating what the mass of people ought to believe.

Yeah, you know, a monopolist's work is never done. No such thing as a perfect monopoly. Seems like you can never get that last one-tenth of one percent.

I'll set up a cron job to do it right now," Corvallis said. "Once an hour?" "I was thinking once a minute.

Then he remembers that he is not just some interloper. He is a shareholder, and an important officer, in the corporation that employs them—he is paying them or oppressing them, take your pick.

I just about got this planet all sewn up." Rife delivers this line with an incredibly sardonic and contemptuous twang, the exaggerated accent of a cowboy who suspects that some Yankee pencilneck is looking down his nose at him.

that's how the government is. It was invented to do stuff that private enterprise doesn't bother with, which means that there's probably no reason for it; you never know what they're doing or why.

The Rat Thing has them now," Hiro says.

He can control these people by grafting radio receivers into their skulls, broadcasting instructions—me—directly into their brainstems.

She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward.

This is the guy. Raven. This is the guy that Juanita is looking for. The guy Lagos told him not to mess with. And Hiro has seen him before, outside the entrance to The Black Sun. This is the guy who gave the Snow Crash card to Da5id. The tattoo on his forehead consists of three words, written in block letters: POOR IMPULSE CONTROL.

Grammar is like the walls and bumpers of a pinball machine. Rhetoric is like the flippers of a pinball machine. You control the flippers. The rest of the machine—grammar—controls everything else. If you use the flippers well, you make points. If you fail to image your concepts viably, your ball drops into the black hole of nothingness. If you try to cheat, the machine tilts and you lose—that's like people not understanding your interactions.

If you are that much of a control freak, what sexual preferences does that translate into?" "I hope I'll never know. I suppose you would want to dominate a woman." "Wrong!" Avi said. "Sex is more complicated than that, Randy.

you are the creator of your reality, and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which you think it will.

Understand that in order for organized religion to succeed, it has to make people believe they need it. In order for people to put faith in something else, they must first lose faith in themselves. So the first task of organized religion is to make you lose faith in yourself. The second task is to make you see that it has the answers you do not. And the third and most important task is to make you accept its answers without question.

Acceptance of something places you in control of it. That which you deny you cannot control, for you have said it is not there. Therefore what you deny controls you.

How energy changes energy depends upon the energies that are interacting. It is all about which energies are mixing. This is the best news you could ever receive, because this is something you can control. You cannot totally control the energies outside of you, but you can totally control the energy within you—and that is where the power is.

In the creation of individual reality, thought control, or what some might call prayer—is everything. Prayer? Thought control is the highest form of prayer. Therefore, think only on good things, and righteous. Dwell

And, obviously, not with ideas of control or power or domination, for these have nothing to do with Love. But…may sex be used for purposes of simple personal gratification? The surprising answer is yes—because "personal gratification" is just another word for Self Love.