Quotes About Control

There are a lot of things I can't control. I don't know what's going to happen in the next few days.I don't want what I am going to face, what kind of choices I am going to have to make. I can't predict it. I can't control it. It's too big.' I nodded at my shovel. 'But that, I can predict. I know that if I pick up that shovel and clear the snow from the walkways, it's going to make my neighbors safer and happier.' I glanced at him and shrugged. 'It's worthwhile to me.

That's the true power of a wizard. I know things. Knowledge is power. With power comes responsibility.

If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone was it.

Sometimes I thought it might be nice not to make any choices. If I never had one, I could never screw it up.

I stared at MacFinn for a long moment. I believed that he was telling me the truth. That he didn't have much control, if any, over his actions when he transformed. Though it occurred to me that if he wanted someone dead, he could probably point his monster-self in the right direction before he lost control. Note to self: Do not cut MacFinn off in traffic.

Do you remember the hardest lesson of power?" "Knowing when not to use it?

It must be tempered with discipline. Ferocity is useless unless employed in the proper place . . .

His red hair was buzz cut, and he wore his ill-fitting suit like something that he planned to rip his way out of when he turned into the Hulk.

Well. You've got me cornered, don't you? I'm at your mercy. Her lips quirked. She took a drag of her cigarette. And I like a man who just won't stop.

All of my base are belong to me.

He clenched his hands into fists and opened them again several times, as though strangling baby ducks.

When most people lose control of their anger, someone gets hurt. Maybe someone even gets killed. When it happens to a wizard, insurance companies go broke and there's reconstruction afterward.

The Denarians want to disrupt civilization, and with the Archive under their control, they could do it. Maybe they'd use biological or chemical weapons instead. Maybe they'd crash the world economy. Maybe they'd turn every program on television into one of those reality shows." "That's mostly done already, Harry.

Politics is the purview of scoundrels, tyrants, and fools.

My mouth kept running without checking in with my brain. My heart maybe, but not my brain.

One grip shy of a steering column? Grimm suggested. Ten degrees short of a compass? Aviating without goggles?

Can't you, like, enhance these?" "No," Gary said flatly. "Because I don't have imaginary movie powers.

I think men who lust for power are capable of almost anything.

Sometimes, son," Count Calderon said, "you have to acknowledge that your future is in someone else's hands.

Now that I've got this to keep me safe off the island," I said very quietly, "what's to stop me from having Alfred drop you into a cell right this second, and solving my problems myself?" "I am," Mab said. She gave me a very small, very chill smile, and held up her finger. There was a tiny droplet of my blood upon it, scarlet against her pale skin.

That's the thing about living behind all that security: If it can keep threats out, it can just as easily keep you in.

Abusers like to isolate their victims. People who feel that they are completely alone tend not to fight back.

If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all.

Because I know my daughter, she said. And I know very well that the only way to absolutely ensure that she pursues any given course of action is for me to forbid her to do so.