Quotes About Control

Right wing or left wing, tyrants always try to control communication. They always fail.

No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that those who are running things might grow addicted to power. Secrecy's essential in wartime, but once in place, will it ever be removed?

Daniel felt a controlled importance, a fine passionate honing of his attention and intellect that made him impatient with his whole previous life.

The powerful don't make revolutions

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

heavily tattooed women can be said to control and subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing men (and women) to look at their bodies in a manner that exerts control.

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.

Do you know," he said, "that there are people who can't go near high places not because they're afraid of heights but because they feel such a lure to jump?

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

No man hath it in his power to over-rule the deceitfulness of a woman.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Hi, my name is Jareth, and I'll be your- God" He curses as he lays his eyes on me. I raised an eyebrow. "You'll be my god? Hm...Well, we'll have to see about that. I mean, it takes a lot to my world these days.

But you have to take control of your destiny. And sometimes that's not easy.

Love is a slippery, unruly thing, and trying to control it robs us of its delicious unpredictability.

Another way of stating the matter is to propose that we only approach happiness to the extent that we manage to relinquish our need to control the trajectory of our existence—that we resist the attraction of definitive conclusions regarding how our lives are supposed to evolve.

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

Vertigo, that's where I am. Pi wants to take over, but I don't let it. Looping wants to occur, but I remain sentient, and I don't do any of the various forms of out-freaking I want to do.

The famous ones kept going, video, photos, headlines, and here they still are, running countries, pressing buttons, standing in offices insisting that all the money in the world belongs to them, pushing secrets through votes, starving the bottom so the top can feast

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.

All I could do was to hold on tight to the sides of the chair, and keep myself from sucking his fingers. 'Would

Such prizes and punishments are, if I may be allowed the expression, the bench of the soul, the instrument of slavery for the spirit. Here