Quotes About Control

DO NOT ENTER, BY ORDER OF QUEEN WASP. PROPERTY OF THE QUEEN. TRESPASSING PUNISHABLE BY MAIMING, DISMEMBERMENT, IMPALING, AND DEATH, IN THAT ORDER.

By all the shining moons, your brain is driving me crazy. Here, you keep this, use it on me whenever you want, and STOP WORRYING SO MUCH.

I'm calm!" Cricket said. She realized she was bouncing on her front talons and forced herself to sit on her tail and stay still. "SO TOTALLY CALM.

kind of awesome knowing I have something everyone needs. I could give it away to anyone, anytime I want." "Or," Swordtail observed, "you could set your enemies on fire anytime you want." Sundew pointed one claw at Swordtail. "You," she said, "are growing on me.

WHOSE IDEA WAS IT TO LET YOU HAVE PAPER AND INK?

Dad would never work for anyone else; he likes being lord himself too much. And he doesn't want to fight any more dragons. He'd rather hide from them.

Fighting over power, Peril thought. Like every dragon ever. But it's not their power, it's Darkstalker's, and they want to use it, the same way Scarlet used mine.

America is the biggest gang in the world.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face to rule it. —H. L. Mencken

Great organizations, unlike countries, are never run like a democracy.

These happen more when he is stressed … as the old commercial says, he shouldn't let them see him sweat so much.

Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati.

He cannot hold his wine; he has no head for it. Why, on no more than three glasses, for I absolutely poured him out no more, he was on the point of singing Yankee Doodle. Yankee Doodle, in a King's ship, upon my sacred honour!

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it; but he gave way with a tolerable show of civility

And from plunder and drunkenness to breaking out entirely and even to mutiny itself is not a terrible long way further. Mutinies always happen in ships where the discipline is either too lax or too severe.

I love [chess]. Apart from anything else, it is agreeable to my sentiments as a citizen of a republic, since it always ends with the discomfiture of a king.

Dr Maturin is admirably strict,' said Jack. 'He often desires me to have the men flogged, to overcome their torpor and to open their veins both at the same time. A hundred lashes at the gangway is worth a stone of brimstone and treacle, we always say.

RDIAS: registered drop-in auto Sear.

you can't own one. They are non-importable

In psychopaths' mental world people do not exist except as objects, targets, and obstacles.

Cons, Bullies, and the Puppetmaster

If you could not have freedom you could still have vengeance.

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her.

But don't we all like to be overpowered, one time or another.