Quotes About Control

We make our destiny by our choice of the gods.

mighty in heaven and hell

Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of her lips, made the air thick, rolled down her cheeks. She had perfect control of herself-Oh, yes!-in every other way.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. They are driven by instincts which are not within their control.

Oh! dear me, the mystery of life; The inaccuracy of thought! The ignorance of humanity! To show how very little control of our possessions we have—what an accidental affair this living is after all our civilization—let me just count over a few of the things lost in one lifetime, beginning, for that seems always the most mysterious of losses—

This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)

And there rose in her an unmastering desire to overcome her; to unmask her. If she could have felled her it would have eased her. But it was not the body; it was the soul and its mockery that she wished to subdue; make feel her mastery.

that England is under the rule of a patriarchy. Nobody in their senses could fail to detect the dominance of the professor. His was the power and the money and the influence. He was the proprietor of the paper and its editor and sub-editor. He was the Foreign Secretary and the Judge.

egotistical. Worst of all, he is a tyrant. But look! she said, looking at him. Look

The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

Hence the enormous importance to a patriarch who has to conquer, who has to rule, of feeling that great numbers of people, half the human race indeed, are by nature inferior to himself.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

the men are undone by the need to master, and the women by the power of self-doubt.

And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

No you can't take a pistol and plug a girl you don't even know simply because she attracts you.

With your little claws, Lolita.

emotions of that kind ought to be more restrained, without violet irises and crying violins.

Nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a Base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled.

I love being bossed by you, but every game has its rules.

The one who kills is always his victim's inferior.

In my self-made seraglio, I was a radiant and robust Turk, deliberately, in the full consciousness of his freedom, postponing the moment of actually enjoying the youngest and frailest of his slaves.

In the good old days, by merely twisting fat Valechka's brittle wrist (the one she had fallen upon from a bicycle) I could make her change her mind instantly;

Literature under despotism: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed." - Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture – Third Reich "Every artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan." - Lenin pg. 7