Quotes About Control

It was ridiculous that things outside a person's control could make others hate you. The nature of your blood wasn't a choice, but humanity had a long history of killing, imprisoning, or fearing others for their race or religion.

He understood the mind's pride, filleting, pinning down life. Understood taking apart, reassembling and labeling. To Understand was to control, to keep the terror of human insignificance at bay. It was routine to self-importance, this ability to kill and to rebuild, to catalog and stop any motion too directly pointing out human limitation and death.

Her hand shot to the front of his breeches, making claws of her fingers and trapping his genitals in a tight grip. He froze. As if testing, she hefted the firm weight she found. Heavy, but so very delicate. She bared her teeth. "And even in the dark, now I'll know that I'm ripping off the right cods." His eyes narrowed, and the hot interest she saw in his gaze sent shivers skittering down her spine. That wasn't just business now. She tightened her grip.

the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves.

Battle For The Mind by William Sargent.

Sir William's work shows, I think, the great respect the small intruding country had at that time for the awesome mass of a subcontinent of which it was edging into control.

When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit, because their strength is not adequate to resist.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

I hate pantyhose. Although I occasionally wear Control Top because I've found there's no quicker way to flatten my tummy, and shut down my whole digestive tract.

Phoo," Zoltan said to me. "Legal system. Police. All playground stuff humans invented to amuse themselves. It's got nothing to do with real power.

I write to make peace with the things I cannot control.

I overheard a young man once saying to his wife, "I can't control you. That's the problem and it's been the problem ever since day one!" And then I heard her answer him and heard her terrible voice. "No!" she said. "The problem isn't that you can't control me, the problem is that you're trying to. Why don't you stop worrying about controlling me and start worrying about controlling yourself?

His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.

Mothers never worry over nothing, but it is true that sometimes we worry over things we can't control.

The veiled woman is not simply an obstacle in the field of visibility and control, but her veiled presence also seems to provide the Western subject with a condition which is the inverse of Bentham's omnipotent gaze. The loss of control does not imply a mere loss of sight, but a complete reversal of positions: her body completely invisible to the European observer except for her eyes, 'the veiled woman can see without being seen'" (p.43).

Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.

Lourenço o menino não entendeu uma coisa: vocês não manda, você só dá ordens. Entendeu?

Nenhum governo do mundo manda mais que o medo e a culpa. O medo me fez viver, recatado e pequeno. A culpa me fez fugir de mim, desabitado de memórias.

Atribuir un nombre es un acto de poder. La primera y más definitiva ocupación de un territorio ajeno.

Até saíra num jornal da capital que aquilo era abuso do poder. Jonas ria-se: ele não abusava; os outros é que não detinham poderes nenhuns. E repetia o ditado: cabrito come onde está amarrado.

O medo é uma faca que corta com o cabo e não com a lâmina. A gente empunha a faca e, quanto maior o pulso, mais nos cortamos.

Emperors hunger for land, and their soldiers are mouths that devour nations.

The rules were explicit: No employee, from the chief executive down to the lowliest mailroom clerk, could talk to the press without a PR minder in tow. The communications department ruthlessly monitored all press coverage, issuing stern correctives to newspapers or magazines that erred on so much as an executive title.