Quotes About Control

arduous, adj. Sometimes during sex, I wish there was a button on the small of your back that I could press and cause you to be done with it already.

Bur I guess the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead.

the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead

As if that in some way made it better, that fate hadn't planned it weeks in advance.

I am in control of the body, and as long as I am in control of the body, I will not allow it to hurt itself.

I want to argue with her, tell her that sins of the flesh is just a control mechanism-if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life.

He wishes that time was a matter of choice. That you could live your life controlling the metronome __ speed it up sometimes, but mostly slow it down.

try not to listen to it, but when someone tells you those things enough, you can't help it. Because if they speak loud enough and often enough, that's the only voice you're able to hear.

I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism—if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

Eso de los pecados de la carne no es más que un mecanismo de control; que si demonizas el placer de las personas eres capaz de controlar su vida

It's natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is -Rhiannon

Socialism invariably leads to economic disaster and often to the government slaughter of its citizens. Even under less severe forms of socialism, regimes live off their nation's wealth that was accumulated before socialist control, until they inevitably squander it.7

David Foster Wallace: I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.

There are unmistakable parallels between the treatment of slaves and the treatment of domestic animals. Brown University historian Karl Jacoby points out that that virtually all of the practices deployed for controlling livestock—practices such as "whipping, chaining, branding, castration, cropping ears"—have also been used to control slaves.

En la historia de los 3.5 mil millones de años de vida en la Tierra, somos la primera especie con la facultad de controlar nuestro destino. La perspectiva de hacerlo será excelente en la medida en que conozcamos nuestro pasado evolutivo.

Men who were indifferent to the sexual contact that their wives might have with other men ended up raising their rival's children more often than men who didn't tolerate their mates' indiscretions. So modern men have descended not from these indifferent men, but from men who strived, and succeeded more often than not, to maintain exclusive sexual control of their mates.

He showed his love and determination by burning her BMW and strangling her cat, then

Nixon wanted view and advice brought to him through intermediaries. He wanted information filtered as it came to him – and he wanted his filters to filter his will back to those whom he must direct.

It is resistance that keeps the feeling going.

In repression, this happens unconsciously; in suppression, it happens consciously.

We have allowed others to program us with methods of self-torture, and we can see that we have retaliated by inviting others to torture themselves in return. We have allowed ourselves to be manipulated by guilt, and we turn it around and use that same mechanism of guilt to try to exploit and control others.

From the viewpoint of this level, the world looks hazardous, full of traps and threats. Fear is the favored official tool for control by oppressive totalitarian agencies and regimes, and insecurity is the stock-in-trade of major manipulators of the marketplace. The media and advertising play to Fear to increase market share.

I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious. Actual formal considerations are almost beyond my capacity. Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn't write. I think that marks a lot of people, a real terror at being bad at something, and unfortunately you are always bad before you can get a little better.

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.