Quotes About Control

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

en todas las habitaciones, de todos los edificios, de toda Corea del Norte, hay colgadas en una pared las fotos de papá Kim y de su retoño. Excepto en los váteres... Of course.

At a certain level of oppression, truth hardly matters, because the greater the lie, the greater the show of power.

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

What we think we'll do is often not what we end up doing. It isn't always in our own control, our life.

If you so much as start to bow or anything like that, Dave, I'll beat you up. I swear I will.

She'd been afraid, preparing herself, after the summons came to the farmhouse—but fear was something you mastered, not a thing that defined you. Folco told all of them that, often. You didn't deny you felt it, you ruled

We have a need to persuade ourselves we are not at the mercy of the world.

It was good to feel laughter, to release it. To believe it was permitted. That many things might now, finally, be allowed. We are vulnerable when we feel that way. But not, in truth, any more than when we live curtailed, held back, enraged, afraid. Everything is, indeed, always changing. And not usually to be controlled by us, the children of earth and sky, with fortune's wheel always turning and a future we cannot know. •

Women have usually been better at this than men, haven't they? Pursuing these subtleties?" "Women have no choice but to be this way if we want any kind of influence, or simply a little control of our own lives.

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

Without the freedom to make 'mistakes', people cannot learn to take control of their lives successfully.

Managements can now view computer screens, capture computer keystrokes, identify websites frequented and track workers' whereabouts through GPS-enabled mobile phones, webcams and minuscule video cameras.

Take control of your life..don't let the people in your life...take control of you!

Damn it, I'm angry now. I do believe life is loss, I do, but my suffering-to-words-ratio was out of control: lying around composing nothing but these - righteous arias, month after month, these tawdry special pleas.

What they prefer to that is to find someone to have power over; someone to own and to bully, to smash and to waste. She wondered if she would ever be in love.

And the people believe, because Julian lets them believe... he does not force, suggest, tease, prod -- he lets them believe, he draws margins over which he knows their minds can jump, he unscrews hinges on all the doors.

El control llega a ser tan efectivo que Servando Gómez, La Tuta, puede hacer una asamblea de presidentes municipales para no tener que hablar uno por uno con ellos. Les dice que todos deben pagar "diezmo", es decir, un porcentaje fijo de la nómina municipal y otro tanto del destinado a obras públicas.

El dominio sobre la economía local y sus rentas es efectivo también. A semejanza de lo que hace con los alcaldes, Servando Gómez, La Tuta, puede convocar a una asamblea de productores de aguacate, limón o ganado, para fijarles las cuotas que van a pagar por sus huertos y ranchos. Más tarde, La Familia tendrá el control directo de los huertos

Es el momento culminante de lo que se ha llamado la pax narca: cuando los criminales son más eficaces y confiables que la autoridad en materia de seguridad pública.

México siempre construyó en su cúpula, de distintos modos, la similar versión de un hombre fuerte, encarnación institucional o espuria del poder absoluto, dispensador de bienes y males: padre, árbitro, verdugo

la historia nos enseña que una vez tomadas por alguien todas las instancias del poder, el poder se vuelve autónomo, se alimenta a sí mismo, separado de su sociedad por el mismo control que ejerce sobre ella, y puede arrastrar por años a sus gobernados por el lado equivocado de la historia.

Who's running things?

He is trapped underground, suddenly and unexpectedly close to death, but still in control of his fate. "At that moment I put death in my head and decided I would live with it," he says later.