Quotes About Control

Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God

When, if only for a moment, the novelist steps out of the creator's role, what roles are there for the novelist to step into? There are only creators of stories and characters in stories; there are no other roles. Ruth had never felt such anticipation before. She felt she had absolutely no will to take control of what happened next; in fact, she was exhilarated not to be in charge. She was happy not to be the novelist. She was not the writer of this story, yet the story thrilled her.

But Lupe both genuinely worshiped Our Lady of Guadalupe and fiercely doubted her; Lupe's doubt was borne by the child's judgmental sense that Guadalupe had submitted to the Virgin Mary—that Guadalupe was complicitous in allowing Mother Mary to be in control.

Okay," I said. There are these moments when you see the course of your life unfolding, and you feel powerless to alter it.

There's no stopping the Catholic Church," Nora had said. "You shouldn't try to stop them; all you can do is try to control the damage they do." Grace

DON'T GIVE ME THE SHIVERS,' Owen said.

What bothered Ruth was that she needed to be with Rooie again -- just to see, as in a story, what would happen next. That meant Rooie was in charge.

Well, lion tamers are probably difficult to live with—I suppose there's no small amount of testosterone involved in taming lions," Vargas said, shrugging.

For once the battle station is fully operational, you will wield the ultimate power in the galaxy." Tarkin

Controlling nothing. Consider that! The youngling and the aged experience it — the struggle with ineffectuality. Controlling nothing is the true death. But I have come back from the dead. And through me, the Empire will control everything.

Force is the only real and unanswerable power. Oftentimes, beings who haven't been duly punished cannot be reasoned with or edified.

the mystical Force, the energy field all Jedi drew upon for strength, could come in handy.

This was how the Empire would conquer and rule, he thought: through might and fear. The

The planets still existed, for sure; she doubted Chancellor Palpa-whoosit or anyone he was fighting had the power to change that.

Those who own the country ought to govern it.

for the Byzantine Empire, absolute monarchy though it might be, ran its economy on socialist lines. Private enterprise was rigidly controlled: production, labour, consumption, foreign trade, public welfare, even the movement of population were all in the hands of the State. The consequence was a vast horde of civil servants, imbued by the Emperor with one overriding principle: to curb if not actually to destroy the power of the army.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Already he was polishing a few carefully worded accusations designed to reduce his mother to repentance or, at least, confusion. He often had to keep her in her place.

He lunged at the glove, deflowering it, stabbing it, conquering it.

the heavy load of debt incurred in the effort to obtain and retain control during the years of financial pillage and devastation.

What makes you so special? Why should you get it and all the rest of us be in the dark? The momentum of the argument abruptly broke from his control. His face froze. Because I've suffered, he burst out.

considered authority, the necessary evil against which happiness was achieved by reaction...

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it

When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor.