Quotes About Control

For a few minutes, a wish put a sword in my hand and gave me power over the grimness of our world.

Sometimes you have to remind yourself that you are not powerless. That you have some measures of control. Maybe that's what makes you brave enough to face another day.

Said Simone de Beauvoir in her groundbreaking book The Second Sex , "Just as in America there is no Negro problem but rather a white problem; just as 'anti-Semitism is not a Jewish problem; it is our problem'; so the women problem has always been a man's problem. . . . Men have always held the lot of women in their hands; and they have determined what it should be, not according to her interest, but rather with regard to their own projects, their fears, and their needs.

Study your prey, learn her habits, accustom her to your presence by seeming harmless and kind. And then, when she is tame and off-guard, you pounce!

Children also use pretend play to confront and assume some control over their fears. That is why playing doctor and being the one to give the shots is so popular with children. Child-controlled play can reinforce specific cognitive tasks such as object permanence. Children engage in various forms of appear-disappear play beginning at about the developmental age of six months as a way to explore issues of attachment and develop object permanence.

Your attitude is the only thing in your life over which you have complete control.

If you recall our first meeting, you should remember that I need no help if I want to kill you with my bare hands. My friends are here to prevent me from doing that.

The cue allows more flexibility and control. But I imagine you'll prefer the mace—it's more moral." Clare's dark brows arched. "How can one piece of wood be more moral than another?

If you allow an experienced man of the world to introduce you to passion when you want him more than he wants you, he will own your soul, but you will not own his.

and with the deftness of a thief, he was picking the lock of her willpower.

Carrot and stick," she said, nodding. "Wave it under his nose and start walking. Works every time with old men, mules, and dogs.

Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view.

The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that will not be controlled nor put to sleep. In a poet this must often be the visual imagination, bringing before his eyes a succession of images which he never summoned, and of which some (it is only too likely) will be ugly or pitiful.

As much as I acted as if I could move mountains with my willpower, like thinking I could force a new business win, I knew I wasn´t really in charge of anything. Deep inside, I believed that God was. But oh, how I tried.

they did not yet have control of the Senate. But elections for one-third of the Senate's members were coming up in early 1879. And despite the Senate's reputation as a bastion of conservative power, the republicans intended to win.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

She rarely showed her emotions, which appeared to have been burned out by the continual short-circuiting of her attention.

One man got so mean and nasty whenever he couldn't play with Maureen's titties that he soiled himself on purpose so she would have to clean his butt and the rest of his private parts. Each time she had to do that, he displayed an erection that would put a horny frat boy to shame.

the many things that puzzled me was, if there were other Black people as proud and fierce-looking as Effie and could control a situation as well as she could, why was the Black race in such a mess? I didn't even think that Effie could answer that question

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Russians suspected of liberal tendencies were watched, and upon the slightest pretext sent to Siberia,

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king.

One of the greatest tragedies in human interaction is that we believe 'will' can change everything—it can't.