Quotes About Control
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
~ John Steinbeck
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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
~ John Steinbeck
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The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.
~ John Steinbeck
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The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
~ John Steinbeck
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I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.
~ John Steinbeck
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I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but I do have a choice of how I do it.
~ John Steinbeck
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And the girl,' Lanser continued, 'the girl, Lieutenant, you may rape her, or protect her, or marry her--that is of no importance so long as you shoot her when it is ordered.
~ John Steinbeck
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That is a great mystery," said Doctor Winter. "That is a mystery that has disturbed rulers all over the world—how the people know. It disturbs the invaders now, I am told, how news runs through censorships, how the truth of things fights free of control. It is a great mystery.
~ John Steinbeck
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By whipping himself he protected himself against whipping by someone else.
~ John Steinbeck
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and it is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended. This last, of course, excludes, those dismal slave parties, whipped and controlled and dominated, given by an ogreish professional hostess. These are not parties at all but acts and demonstrations, about as spontaneous as peristalsis and as interesting as it's end product.
~ John Steinbeck
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It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
~ John Steinbeck
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They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.
~ John Steinbeck
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He hated old women. They frightened him. There was a smell about them that gave him the willies. They were fierce and they had no price. They never gave a damn about making a scene. They got what they wanted. Louie's grandmother had been a tyrant. She had got whatever she wanted by being fierce.
~ John Steinbeck
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That is a mystery that has disturbed rulers all over the world—how the people know. It disturbs the invaders now, I am told, how news runs through censorships, how the truth of things fights free of control. It is a great mystery." The
~ John Steinbeck
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Jesus Christ, one person with their mind made up can shove a lot of folks aroun'! You win, Ma. Put away that jack handle 'fore you hurt somebody.
~ John Steinbeck
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The bank - or the Company - needs - wants -insists - must have - as though the bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them... The banks were machines and masters all at the same time... They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it they die... It is a sad thing, but it is so. It is just so.
~ John Steinbeck
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Why don't you beat him?
~ John Steinbeck
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Thy life is not thine own to govern, Danny, for it controls other lives. See how thy friends suffer! Spring to life, Danny, that thy friends may live again!
~ John Steinbeck
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When angered she had a terrible eye which could blanch the skin off a bad child as easily as if he were a boiled almond.
~ John Steinbeck
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The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
~ John Steinbeck
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If a bank or a finance company owned the land, the owner man said, The Bank—or the Company—needs—wants—insists—must have—as though the Bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them. These last would take no responsibility for the banks or the companies because they were men and slaves, while the banks were machines and masters all at the same time.
~ John Steinbeck
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She controlled her face and whipped the fear from it. "You're just doing it because you're honest, is that it? You're just too sugar sweet to live.
~ John Steinbeck
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But a good servant, and I am an excellent one, can completely control his master, tell him what to think, how to act, whom to marry, when to divorce, reduce him to terror as a discipline, or distribute happiness to him, and finally be mentioned in his will.
~ John Steinbeck
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Yes, but the bank is only made of men. No, you're wrong there—quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it. The
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