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Quotes About Control

Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!
~ Victoria Hanley
For the first time in months, I felt together. Sharp. In hurting myself, I had at last found a way to release the pressure. But it was more than that. I was now different. I felt different. I'd discovered a way to control my feelings. Just because self-mutilation wasn't deemed an acceptable coping mechanism didn't mean I was going to stop doing it
~ Unknown
Noam held a storm in his hands, and he couldn't feel a thing.
~ Unknown
Although every country thought itself superior in its own way, was there ever a country that coined so many "super" terms from the federal bank of its narcissism, was not only superconfident but also truly superpowerful, that would not be satisfied until it locked every nation of the world into a full nelson and made it cry Uncle Sam?
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation is also a kind of death.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
The word that identified what we did not possess was "money," . . . The other word was "votes," so that together "money votes" was "open sesame" to the deep caverns of the American political system.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Easier to get a gun here than to vote or drive. You
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Time howled in my ear, screaming with laughter at the idea that we could control it with wristwatches, alarm clocks, revolutions, history.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
it was better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven, better
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation is also a kind of death. For if we are represented by others, might they not, one day, hose our deaths off memory's laminated floor?
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
was there ever a country that coined so many "super" terms from the federal bank of its narcissism, was not only superconfident but also truly superpowerful, that would not be satisfied until it locked every nation of the world into a full nelson and made it cry Uncle Sam?
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
~ Vijay Mallya
R?ng nh?ng ước mÆ¡ ch? có quy?n n?ng ??i vá»›i cái ??u c?a riêng ta. Nhưng ti?n có quy?n n?ng ??i vá»›i cái ??u c?a ng??i khác.
~ Vikas Swarup
The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.
~ Vikas Swarup
The truth is that human beings like to be ruled. They will talk and talk about freedom, but they are afraid of it. Overpowered by me, they were safe, and happy.
~ Vikram Chandra
To steel yourself against mangoes showed a degree of iciness that was almost inhuman.
~ Vikram Seth
A person can be used as a tool only if he doesn't know for what he is being taken.
~ Unknown
A poor man who marries a rich woman is not his wife, but a ruler.
~ Unknown
An enemy is like boiling water in a pot on the stove whose button may sometimes be in your hands.
~ Unknown
Anger in the body is like a termite in the wood.
~ Unknown
Every now and then the government must defend itself against itself.
~ Unknown
Just one thing you have to do to God is prayer and he will decide whether it is steering wheel or your spare tire.
~ Unknown
Life is just like a running train without driver, we can't jump out of it to find the platform of our choice.
~ Unknown
Man proposes, God disposes is not the matter, the matter is what man possesses.
~ Unknown