Quotes About Control

In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.

God gives air to men; the law sells it to them.

owing money was the beginning of slavery ..... a creditor was worse than a boss, for a boss only owns your person but a creditor owns your dignity and can slap it around.

When all was said, his fate, however ugly it might prove to be, was in his own hands; he was its master.

To confide is sometime to deliver into a person's power

The primitive races of mankind were terrified by the hydra that flew upon the water, by the dragon that belched fire, by the griffin, that aerial monster with wings on an eagle and a tiger's claws — fearful creatures beyond the control of men. But man sets his traps, the miraculous traps conceived by human intelligence, and in the end he captured them.

That it was no doubt a dark hour, but that he should get through it; that after all he held his destiny, evil as it might be, in his own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to that thought.

All the invasions of history have been determined by petticoats.

Biassou raised his hand, and as if by enchantment the tumult was stilled, and each negro returned to his place in the ranks in silence. The discipline which Biassou had imposed upon his equals by the exercise of his power of will struck me, I may say, with admiration. All the soldiers of the force seemed to exist only to obey the wishes of their chief, as the notes of the harpsichord under the fingers of the musician.

TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER

Machiavel a fait des petits. Louis Bonaparte en est un.

The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.

You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride.

When a man resorts to violence, he's scared," Jack said. "That's a good sign.

a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart.

She was feeling too much right now, and that was dangerous. Being a good psychiatrist was like reading a novel at forty. You needed to keep the words at arm's length or everything became a blur.

I can drop a dove in midflight. And I don't even want to hurt them. You, I kinda want to shoot.

While they were virtual roller coasters of emotion, you needed to be calm, always.

God makes His choices without us.

Let me tell you something else I know. When you hide things away, and keep them secret, they have a ... power.

Leni hadn't understood then. Now she did. She saw how love could be dangerous and beyond control. Ravenous. Leni had it in her to love the way her mother did. She knew that now.

It spoke to me, that anger. I didn't realize how angry I'd been until it was in the air, infecting everyone. But as always, I held it inside.

so I put up with his controlling ways. What do I care

Beyond that, she had never had great impulse control. Maybe because she'd never had anything to lose. Now, she knew what it meant to be afraid, to want something - or someone - so much it made your heart ache.