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Quotes About Control

Somehow her getting naked breaks the tension. Her transformation is palpable: She seems easier, more confident; her body is how she asserts control.
~ Unknown
Indeed, and crucially so, the serial form took the control of the novel away from the reader and left him in an imagined space that could not be thought of in terms of the physical space still to be read. At the end of each instalment the reader would contemplate a vacuum, an 'end' which looked forward to a continuing verbal space which he could not measure. He might speculate but he could not know.
~ Unknown
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
~ Ian Hamilton Finlay
When the Tigress plays, the dragon whips its tail.
~ Ian Kerner
I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
~ Ian MacKaye
Where there are drones, there will always be police. Where there are police, there will always be violence.
~ Unknown
Tell me, how is it that Courtney Hall can have all her life mapped out for her from beginning to end for the maximum personal happiness and satisfaction and still be neither happy nor satisfied?
~ Unknown
Mr. Durukan, if God is dead then everything is conspiracy.
~ Unknown
Little men, stuck in little positions of little authority, are always the worst.
~ Unknown
What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?
~ Ian Rankin
Obsession came easy—especially to men—because it was a cheap way of achieving control, albeit control over something practically worthless.
~ Ian Rankin
parked and placed the POLICE sign on the dashboard.
~ Ian Rankin
My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing." "You mean you went to an expensive school?
~ Ian Rankin
And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.
~ Ian Rush
Math is a product of human minds but not bendable to human will
~ Ian Stewart
Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.
~ Unknown
Slim, I hope you ain't sexed that pretty bitch yet. Believe me, Slim, a pimp is really a whore who's reversed the game on whores. Slim, be as sweet as the scratch. Don't be no sweeter. Always stick a whore for a bundle before you sex her. A whore ain't nothing but a trick to a pimp. Don't let em Georgia you. Always get your money in front just like a whore. Whores in a stable are like working chumps in the white man's factory..
~ Iceberg Slim
After all, we are the absolute bosses of that whole theater and show in our minds. We even write the script. So always write positive, dynamic scripts and show only the best movies for you on that screen whether you are pimp or priest.
~ Iceberg Slim
croak us for free. He'd suck Nino's ass with a straw.
~ Iceberg Slim
A bitch aint shit without a man's good whip, & 1 monkey wont stop my show.
~ Iceberg Slim
Baby, be quiet! You're not in control anymore. God is in control. And God is going to get you out in His own time." The power of her words knocked me back. What did my mother just tell me?
~ Unknown
If it has taught us anything, it is that our present law-makers, as a body, are ignorant, corrupt and unprincipled; that the majority of them are, directly or indirectly, under the control of the very monopolies against whose acts we have been seeking relief. .
~ Ida Tarbell
People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
~ Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet The Tongue A man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.
~ Idries Shah