Quotes About Control

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it...

Inside Purdue Frederick, power was determined entirely by one's relationship to the family.

Have the military wing create as much discontent and deprivation as possible, the more unemployment the better. Then have your political wing feed off the people's discontent.

According to Sonnenreich, Arthur was the controlling force behind the agency: "Frohlich's firm, basically, was Arthur's." But the bond between the two ran deeper still. It wasn't just Arthur who was close with Bill Frohlich: Mortimer and Raymond Sackler also became friends and confidants of the German adman.

One unionist politician likened this custody arrangement to keeping 'a python in a paper bag'.

Only a fool worries over what he can't control.

He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.

If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.

Auri stood, and in the circle of her golden hair she grinned and brought the weight of her desire down full upon the world. And all things shook. And all things knew her will. And all things bent to please her.

The gesture was so tight with rage she feared she'd snap and crack the world in two.

Chronicler froze. 'So you're saying I work for you?' 'I'm saying you belong to me.' Bast's face was deadly serious. 'Down to the marrow of your bones.

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

No, she won't," Bast said smugly. "Because I'm all grown, and I can do whatever I want with my pants. I could light them on fire and I wouldn't get in any trouble at all.

Appearance is a type of power.

You were a little wild around the eyes there," she (Denna) said gently. "I don't think I've ever seen you out of sorts before." I took another slow breath. I'm out of sorts all the time," I (Kvothe) said. "I just don't show it.

We can't do anything but snap at each other," I said. "The masters made sure of that. Anything too extreme would get us expelled for Conduct Unbecoming a Member of the Arcanum. Why do you think I haven't made his life a hell?" "You're lazy?" Wil suggested.

My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)

Names are the shape of the world, and a man who can speak them is on the road to power

Los nombres dan forma al mundo, y un hombre que puede pronunciarlos va camino del poder.

Quite impressive, to unbind what I have wrought with nothing more than blood.

The point of all of this is control. First you must have control of yourself. Then you can gain control of your surroundings. Then you gain control of whoever stands against you. This is the Lethani.

A ghost wants revenge, a demon wants your soul, a shamble-man is hungry and cold. It makes them less terrible. Things we understand we can try to control. But Chandrian come like lightning from a clear blue sky. Just destruction. No rhyme or reason to it.

But even in the full flower of her fury, Carceret was perfectly in control. She didn't lash out wildly or snarl at me. She kept her words inside her, burning them like fuel.