Quotes About Control

Don't drive like you own the road; drive like you own the car.

Ce n'est pas fini jusqu'a ce que je dis c'est fini, Rampling called out. It's not over until I say it's over.

free will (noun): A delusional idea that humans are in control of their own destiny and not subject to the benevolent rule of The One Who Is The One.

A flow of heroically suppressed swear words ran through my brain.

Ninety percent of people want the direction of their life to change, but they forget they're the ones driving the car. You have to turn the wheel.

But even when patients die under totally hinky circumstances, people think doctors are so Godlike, they just accept whatever they're told.

Attempting to drive a car before you find and release the parking brake is like trying to drag a Saint Bernard into a bathtub. But

That's the problem with stun guns, even an expensive eighty-thousand-volt Tensor. They don't always bring down a big man. Especially a crazed one with a sense of purpose.

everyone around, telling everyone what to do. "Move this over there! Move that over here!" While Roger is busy playing the role

Our goal is to find the Institute." "How are we gonna do that?" Angel asked. "I have a plan," I said firmly. God, I was really going to have to get all this lying under control.

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

through his hair nervously. "It's simple, really. The more we ask technology to do for us, the more power we have to give it.

Tom McGinnis, or McGirth, as he was more casually known due to his not-so-girlish figure, was the department's chief of detectives, Miriam's boss and perhaps the most egregious power-hungry ballbuster in the NYPD.

officers who were forced to subdue him." "Who

The taxi was a V-6. Good, I'd probably need all of that. I clicked off the radio and AC to funnel extra power.

It sounds like you sort of made that woman buy you the bear—" "Celeste." "Celeste, whether she wanted to or not. Do you see what I'm saying?

We don't need Fuck Buddies Incorporated taking this over and cutting us out.

I slid the Glock nine millimeter out of my shoulder holster. Light. Efficient. Semiautomatic. Twelve deadly shots. My teeth were gritted so tight they hurt. I clicked off the safety. I

Fang pondered. It always amazes me how he's able to seem so calm at the absolute worst times. Sometimes he seems like a droid—or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2.

No matter what's going on around you, son, always fly the airplane. Cain had been only twelve years old when his father said it. This is the most important thing in flying and in life: Take the controls.

Jeb had always said to think with your brain, not your emotions. He'd been right, as usual. So I put all my feelings in a box and locked it.

You can't go up and down emotionally along with their roller-coaster whims.

When Carl Monroe wants something from you, he'll talk you into submission if he has to. I had seen this before and now he started up with me again.

I started my inevitable hysterical freak-out, but I tried to do it very quietly inside my head, because this had been so special, and I didn't want to ruin it. Like I usually did.