Quotes About Control

You will love this man. Do you understand? You will love him, serve him, and obey him in all things. This is your duty to me and to France. Am I clear?' Isabella is twelve years old and astoundingly pretty, a woman in a girl's body. She keeps her eyes on the floor and nods her head.

Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.

Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of most of his empire.

This was all in the making, a long time ago. You had as much control over these events as a leaf does in the time of its falling.

When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

The prime motive of science is not to control the Universe but to appreciate it more fully. It is a huge privilege to live on Earth and to share it with so many goodly and fantastic creatures.

Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask "What the hell is wrong with the projector?" and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time.

We have no witnesses, no proof. But someone evil is moving us around like chess pieces.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

NIDS board members were part of a secret cabal known as the Aviary. Members of the cabal supposedly had their own birdlike code names such as the Owl or the Penguin. The mission of the sinister Aviary, according to the imaginative writer, was to control all information about the presence of extraterrestrials on Earth. (The Aviary had been, and continues to be, a staple of conspiracy buffs.)

La dictature c'est "Ferme ta gueule !", la démocratie c'est "Cause toujours !

Behind every war stands those whom seek to gain from it.

Manipulation is the most powerful and therefore is the deadliest of all weapons.

Many have tried and all have failed; this world will never be ruled by one.

One shall become, whenever One wills it so.

Only a fool will try and take over this world.

The biggest mistake we humans make is thinking we rule it all, when in fact, we rule nothing.

The hardest thing was to let Them and The Philosophy go from my complete control.

The keeper of the knowledge is the keeper of the power.

We are mere subjects of the world's decision for us.

You know of me only what I choose to tell.