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Quotes About Control

You're just shy of figuring out how to shuffle your horde of hormone-curdled control-obsessed malignant narcissists offworld. In short, you were about to become our problem. But now there is no problem! Now there is a process.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Don't apologize, you were very fair." Dess sipped his tea. "The defense will stipulate that we're rubbish. Genocidal meatbags with mummy issues and embarrassingly poor impulse control.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Mindannyian a hatalom szörny? hajtóm?vében élünk, amely csikorog, sípol és éget, és így senki sem mondja: a térképre rajzolt vonalak butaságok.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
And I was – still am – in a state of permanent terror that the pancreatitis may return. I still have nightmares about hospital and it is two years since my last admission. Those nights in A&E haunt me, and will probably do so forever, with their brutality and pain. No wonder I took a bit more, then a bit more, until it all spiralled out of control. No wonder I tried to run from those damaging memories into the arms of mother opiate. Charlie
~ Cathryn Kemp
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
~ Cathy Carlyle
upper body to hold them steady.
~ Cathy Gillen Thacker
The brain is like a pressure cooker and it can only take so much before it blows.
~ Cathy Glass
You've made a god of your fear and jealousy, Sister. For what is a god but what we go to again and again?
~ Cathy Gohlke
You can't change other people: you can only change how you react to them.
~ Cathy Kelly
Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.
~ Cathy McMorris
Church controls what government doesn't," Mark elaborated. "And government controls churches through the 501(3)(C) tax exemption. Any church that fails to follow government mandate dictating what they can say and who to support loses their tax- exempt status. The churches have become the 'great whore' as the Bible6 predicted.
~ Cathy O'Brien
This criminal government doesn't want guns in the hands of people who can think for themselves.
~ Cathy O'Brien
As my "owner," Senator Byrd directed my activities, deciding which military and NASA installations I would be taken to for mind control programming, who I would be prostituted to and when , and which government operations I would ultimately be used in during the Reagan/Bush Administration.
~ Cathy O'Brien
It looks to me that this community is being socially engineered and controlled to ignore the atrocities emanating from Bohemian Grove and through Aquino and the Presidio. Now that the people know they can't count on their self-appointed so-called 'elected' official for help and change, they can think to refuse to follow them.
~ Cathy O'Brien
Secret knowledge equals power, with the end result being control.
~ Cathy O'Brien
The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
~ Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Other ayatollahs considered the female voice arousing and barred women from speaking in mixed gatherings unless they first put a stone in their mouths to distort the sound. Khomeini,
~ Geraldine Brooks
It is this notion of women's barely controllable lust that often lies behind justifications for clito-ridectomy, seclusion and veiling.
~ Geraldine Brooks
the women began traveling to remote villages, distributing articles that argued not just against "honor" killings but also against forced marriages and the pernicious way gossip is used in small communities to control the behavior of women and girls.
~ Geraldine Brooks
My mother, my grandmother and my great-grandmother all told me it was right, that without it a woman wouldn't be able to control herself, that she would end up a prostitute," said Aset, a beautiful twenty-eight-year-old whose own genitals had been mutilated when she was about seven years old.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Censura praevia or censura repressiva, the effect is the same. Either way, a book is destroyed. Better you do it than have us so intellectually enslaved that we do it for you.
~ Geraldine Brooks
The trouble with weeping was that once begun, it became almost impossible to stop.
~ Geraldine Brooks