Quotes About Control

An ugly blue- steeled Mauser leaped into his hand as his finger curled hungrily around its trigger.

You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

The message is clear – those who do not feel in control of their lives are less successful, and less psychologically and physically healthy, than those who do feel in control.

to see was not to control, that self-understanding was far short of self-mastery. He was afraid of himself.

absolute power is corrupting

In the old days we were concerned with mobs, with thousands of men running amuck in the streets. The mob has conquered completely. When the mob has grown so vast that you cannot see it, then it is everywhere.

Not only had he lived where they told him to live, not only had he done what they told him to do, not only had he done these things until he had killed to be quit of them ; but even after obeying, after killing, they still ruled him. He was their property, heart and soul, body and blood ; what they did claimed every atom of him, sleeping and waking...

he felt that they ruled him, even when they were far away and not thinking of him, ruled him by conditioning him in his relations to his own people. The

I knew that he was using the Negro vote to control the city hall; in turn, he was engaged in vast political deals of which the Negro voters, political innocents, had no notion. With my pencil I wrote in a determined scrawl across the face of the ballots: I Protest This Fraud

Ovunque, nella mia vita, io abbia incontrato la religione, ho trovato la discordia, il tentativo di un individuo o di un gruppo di dominare un altro in nome di Dio.

Esta foi assim a última lição que Francisca me ensinou: que eu, John Zarco, não tinha qualquer poder mágico. Não havia canções de amor suficientemente poderosas para derrotar a morte. Todas as coisas mais importantes estavam fora do nosso controlo.

Freedom means creating holy habits, surrounding ourselves with folks who make us better, and learning to control our desires. We are not as strong as we think we are—so that requires community and communion with God and each other.

On the bright side, Percy said, both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.

Can't this thing go any faster?" Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. "I cannot control traffic." You both sound like my mother," I said. Shut up!" they both said in union.

Names have power.

Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!

Love was the most savage monster of all.

Not all powers are spectacular. Hestia looked at me. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

No, Frank said. I'm only a centurion. Jason cursed in Latin. He means he can't control a whole legion. He's not of high enough rank. Nico swung back his black sword at another gryphon. Well, then, promote him!

I am Nico Di Angelo, son of Hades. I control the shadows. They do not control me.

even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That's how we rebel against destiny

I excel at pulling strings!" said Arachne. "I'm a spider!

The most difficult kind of strength -- restraint.

One basketball to rule them all," Leo muttered.