Quotes About Control

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.

Anything with that much power and that little control, that utter lack of concern for anything but self is evil in the most effective sense of the word.

Compartmentalize and conquer.

You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here." "Which is weird, because you can screw it up from decades away.

I looked, noted details mechanically, and quietly shut the door on the part of my head that had started screaming the second I entered the room.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 452, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.

The government isn't the mob, Harry. Aren't they? I asked. Pay them money every year to protect you, and God help you if you don't.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 451, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.

Nipple erection on command—now that's method acting. Oh

I know you haven't burned down any buildings in a while, she said, but if you start feeling the need...

Bikers don't wear all that leather around simply for the fashion value or possible felony assaults. It's handy for keeping the highway from ripping the skin from your flesh should you wind up losing control of the bike and sliding along the asphalt for a while.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence

If a White Court vampire wants to feed off a human, all she really has to do is crook her finger, and he comes running. There isn't any ominous music. Nobody sparkles. As far as anyone looking on is concerned, a girl winks at a boy and goes off somewhere to make out. Happens every day. They don't get

As a rule, people aren't good at handling power. And the second you think you're better at controlling your power than anyone else, you've already taken the first step.

telling myself only hours ago that reason had to guide my actions, my decisions, if I was to keep control of myself?

It's hard, really, really hard, in fact damn near impossible, to exercise power without it having some unexpected consequences. Doesn't matter what kind of power it is—magic, muscle, political office, electricity, moral authority. Use any of it, and you're going to find out that as a result, things happen that you didn't expect.

The net result of it was that some streets were bright with the headlights of military trucks and patrolled by National Guardsmen, and some of them were as black and empty as a crooked politician's heart.

Do you know how to really control someone...? Give them what they want. Give them what they need. Give them what no one else can give. If you can do that, they'll come back to you again and again.

Murphy squeezed back. "Harry. You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here." "Which is weird, because you can screw it up from decades away.

She practically glowed. Once or twice, after a compliment, she'd literally glowed, but we'd gotten that under control within a month or two.

You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here." "Which is weird, because you can screw it up from decades away.

I know you must be angry." "I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.

The thing about creatures as big as the Jotun is that they come without power steering.

I roared at him. "Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!