Quotes About Control

This Army of Light was mine. I had summoned it. I had DRAWN it. Could I have stopped it? I don't know. The truth is, I didn't want to.

Starting a war is in our hands, it is easy. But ending a war, that is not in our hands and no one knows what will happen.

It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else

reset to remind you that you're the one in control of your marriage, not Lizzy.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." ? Mark Twain

A counselor once told me the need to control is really about perfectionism and the inability to accept uncertainty. Do you agree with that?

the need to control is really about perfectionism and the inability to accept uncertainty.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power." —John Steinbeck

Blame, I guess, is a heavy burden to indulge. Forgiving my father doesn't make me miss my mother any less, or change the fact that I long to have her in my life now, for selfish reasons, I admit. Maybe that's the hardest thing to accept about being an adult. The fact that things happen to us in this world that we simply have no control over. Or any ability to change the outcome of.

I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don't like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful.

We make an idol of our fear and that idol we call God.

I seem to recall, but can't remember where, a science fiction story of social-wide amnesia having to do with hypnotic commands to FORGET, FORGET what you have seen, and ATTACK AND DESTROY those who insist they have seen it. This

So, in bigger-picture Machiavellian scheme of things, it transpires that the mind must be disposed of, with special emphasis on its detecting components. There are two traditional methods for achieve something like this – to keep people, in general, as stupid and illiterate as possible, and, if that doesn't work, to keep their minds fixated on the objective

After being sensed, the information, via innate electrical coding, is passed along from cell to cell, then through nervous system channels where it ends up in this or that control center which then makes "sense" of the electrical coding, and which is not always the brain. It thus turns out that the entire human body is one gigantic series of sensing systems, having, as it does, millions upon millions of sensing receptors.

Although the press enjoys much more freedom of speech these days, and the internet provides the public with access to the world at large, domestic coverage of the government and its leaders is strictly censored. "Dissident voices" are swiftly silenced, while overseas anti-government websites are firewalled. All this is proof that despite a liberal attitude towards the economy, the government remains nervous at the thought of losing its firm grip on society.

there are ways of controlling the discomfort bowel obstructions cause without surgery, but doing so would take palliative care expertise of the sort that a hospice program provides.

Computers will be the death of us all.

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.

on the famous Lord Acton line: "Power kills, and absolute power kills absolutely.

In Japan censorship is practiced not only by the government when it tampers with textbooks but by the media, which police themselves.

But now you have another problem. Keeping him from exploding like a live granade and blitzing all of us." He started walking down the hall. "I've already had a little taste of that and I'm not willing to stand for it again. I'm patient, I'm not a martyr. Fix it Eve.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. —Woody Allen