Quotes About Control

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

When you are in a car, bitch or no bitch, you can do anything you desire as long as you remain on your side.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

I am the one who broke the rule. But I am the one who made the rule you couldn't live with.

What about guns with sensors in the handles that could detect if you were angry, and if you were, they wouldn't fire, even if you were a police officer?

Sam enjoyed knowledge. The accumulation and distribution of facts gave him a feeling of control, of utility, of the opposite of the powerlessness that comes with having a smallish, underdeveloped body that doesn't dependably respond to the mental commands of a largish, overstimulated brain.

I had lusted after Donald— after his time, his attention, his presence—because I felt I had a right to. I saw what a consuming, fiery passion lust can be. It was a desire that I did not want to deny myself. In the end, I lost everything that I sought to selfishly control.

This sin-stained planet would have ripped apart at the seams long ago were it not for the restraining hand of God.

However, evil is not uncontrolled. Because God reigns over all (Ps. 103:19), nothing happens outside of God's control and plans. Even if we can't grasp it this side of eternity, our sufferings have a place in God's plans. Because even our sufferings fit into God's plans, we don't suffer in vain. Our sufferings have meaning because God uses them for his purposes.

Cuando poseemos algo y nos esclavizamos dependiendo de ese algo, ¿quién tiene a quién, Demián? ¿Quién tiene a quién?

Mi carne puede tener miedo; yo, no.

Glencairn, tal vez omnipotente en la ciudad que una firma al pie de un decreto le destinó, era una mera cifra en los engranajes de la administración del Imperio.

medio siglo de violencia le había enseñado que lo más fácil y seguro es matar…

Bandeira, sin embargo, siempre es nominalmente el jefe. Da órdenes que no se ejecutan

Burning books and erecting fortifications are the usual occupations of princes. - The Wall and the Books

While religion is defined by adoration, magic is defined by dominion or control over supernatural forces or entities.

To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man's thinking and doing.

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

Nature's full of things that aren't good or bad. They just are. Storms, sun, lightning, animals. There are a lot of forces that are neutral, but when they fall into certain hands they can become good or bad. It depends on how the user wants to use them. You can train a dog to be friendly or mean.

We no longer desire and fear; we are what was desired and feared.

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt: "The Fates lead him who will; him who won't, they drag.

old Roman: "The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

Man should not submit to the powers from outside but command them. How to do it is the problem.