Quotes About Control

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

I can control most things, but I don't seem to be able to control death.

Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:Those who are free from anger are free from death.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

Death is a master from Germany.

A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.

A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.

Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.

To die at the command of another is to die twice.

Hard to determine from the way she tackled her tasks whether it was she who was serving necessity or necessity that was serving her.

Puoi superare qualunque cosa, anche se la fiducia è stata tradita, se ti viene confessato. Allora diventate compagni di vita in un modo diverso, ma è sempre possibile rimanere compagni. Ma mentire... Mentire significa esercitare un meschino, spregevole controllo sull'altra persona. Significa permettere che l'altra persona agisca in base a informazioni incomplete. Lasciare, in altri termini, che si umili.

He was supposed to get through dinner not thinking about the only things he could think about. He was supposed to do this forever.