Quotes About Control

That's what starts to happen, when you know it is possible for you to feel pain you have no control over. You become vulnerable. Because the possibility of pain is where love stems from. And that, for me, was very bad news indeed.

That's what starts to happen, when you know it is possible for you to feel pain you have no control over. You become vulnerable. Because the possibility of pain is where love stems from.

That was the remarkable thing about humans—their ability to shape the path of other species, to change their fundamental nature.

I need to tame the past. That is what history is, the teaching and telling of it. It is a way to control it and order it. To turn it into a pet.

Then she realised. A fire had no motive. Only she could have that. The power was hers.

You have no control over who people think you are. So don't worry.

I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it.

We have handed over our instincts to the hands of a clock. Increasingly, we serve time rather than time serving us. We fret about time. We wonder where time has gone. We are obsessed with time.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological animal.

because they believed in free will. Ha! Humans

That's what starts to happen, when you know it is possible for you to feel pain you have no control over. You become vulnerable. Because the possibility of pain is where love stems from.

It just shows you, doesn't it?' 'Shows me what?' 'Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes. But I stand by what I said. It was a good choice. It just wasn't a desired outcome.

Our mind might make prisons, but it also gives us keys.

I was later to realize that a neatly trimmed lawn was a powerful signifier and should have commanded in me a slight sense of fear and respect, especially in conjunction

That's what starts to happen, when you know it is possible for you to feel pain you have no control over. You become vulnerable. Because the possibility of pain is where love stems from. And that, for me, was very bad news indeed. Sloping roofs (and other ways to deal with the rain) and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, – William Shakespeare, Hamlet   I couldn't sleep.

If you ever are on Earth and want whatever you are doing to end, look for the button with the red symbol on it.)

Personal emotions should be carefully monitored. Emotional ties are to be exploited but never felt.

Now I'm a glorified bureaucrat holding on by my fingernails as we all slide into super-powered chaos. A voice of reason in a world gone mad.

Sometimes we cannot control our world and hold it too tightly without squeezing some of the life from it.

For all the gifts of computer technology, if its power goes underappreciated, it can hijack the brain.

Market failure is a favourite phrase; government failure is not.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

We manufactured fake dissent, to prevent real dissent.

These leaders are like the drug lords who ruled America's ghettos in the crack age, men (and some women) interested in just two things: staying in power, and hoovering up enough of what's left of the cash on their blocks to drive around in an Escalade or a 633i for however long they have left.