Quotes About Control

She looked slick as hell; polished, neat, and with that feminine deadliness that can drive you nuts. They work on it till they get complete control of the situation. There's no use trying to break them down. They've made it.

Colonel Sir Guy Wethered's thoughts were still peculiar as he watched his guest open the door for his young wife. Danger had always stimulated him. And this might be danger of a new kind. "I made her marry me", he brooded. "And I'll damn well make her stay married to me. Whether she wants to or whether she doesn't." Not that there could be any real danger from Rusty. All the same…

The poor object to being governed badly, while the rich object to being governed at all.

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

On retarde une échéance, on se croit capable de gérer la fuite, jusqu'au jour où une main nous saisit par le collet et nous ramène à la case départ. Je suis de plus en plus convaincu que nous ne gouvernons que partiellement nos petites vies

There again, the acceleration of history is the job of ruthless men.

The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn't mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There's so much fear in America and control.

The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free.

Every established order tends to make its own entirely arbitrary system seem entirely natural." —Pierre Bourdieu1

As with all derivatives, these tools were to offer a way of controlling risk, but they could also amplify it.

It is their country, sergeant. You only hold the keys.

Ever notice there are no clocks in stores? It's like casinos; they don't want you to know how much time you've spent dropping your quarters.

So many things, when you break them down, are about perception. So many things hinge on how we choose to interpret both our own choices and the immovable forces beyond our control. So much rests on having the wisdom, and sometimes the cold-edged fucking ruthlessness, to know the difference.

Don't wait for a genie to grant your wishes. That power is yours.

Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control.

During those days of whirling about the globe, I had an epiphany: travel was the only area of my life where I had no expectations. I anticipated nothing while fully engaging each moment. What bred adventure, surprise and deep experience was not knowing, surrendering to now and letting go of control.

If we believe our thoughts, then they define us and determine our experience of life, how we feel, and what we do. We are, in many respects, a puppet to our conditioning, to our thoughts and feelings—when we believe them. When we are identified with them and believe them, we are at the mercy of them. They run the show.

Russian government

Lou Priolo defines manipulation as "an attempt to gain control of another individual or situation by inciting an emotional reaction rather than a biblical response from that individual

If he had been able to, Barbaja would have put me in charge of the kitchen as well' (Rossini on his impresario

Pero Sara no entendería que ella se sintiera tan contenta. no entendía el placer de ser uno mismo, tomar decisiones, tener la vida bajo control. Sara había pasado del padre-padre al padre-marido.

Aveva urlato. E aveva sbagliato a farlo. Il disprezzo che provava per quell'uomo non doveva essere manifestato con un ruggito. Doveva essere espresso con il sibilo del serpente. E serpente divenne.

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