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Quotes About Control

This is your last chance, Control. But it wasn't. It was, instead, an immolation. If he was remembered at all, it would be as the harbinger of disaster.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Manusia ingin percaya bahwa mereka hidup dan bertindak berdasarkan kemauan mereka sendiri, namun pada kenyataannya mereka hanya dipaksa oleh keadaan.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Somos arquitectos de nuestro propio destino.
~ einstein, albert
Very well. I understand. Just ... shut up!
~ Eion Colfer
When people used to complain to the Buddha that they were upset, telling him, Our children upset us; our partner agitates us, his simple reply would be, You are not upset because of your children or your partner; you are upset because you are upsettable.
~ Eknath Easwaran
Attention can be trained very naturally, with affection, just as you train a puppy. When something distracts your attention, you say "Come back" and bring it back again. With a lot of training, you can teach your mind to come running back to you when you call, just like a friendly pup.
~ Eknath Easwaran
I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, comrade?
~ Elaine Brown
The larger the prisoner's pain (the smaller the prisoner's world and therefore by comparison) the larger the torturer's world... pain becomes power... the torturer uses the prisoner's aliveness to crush the things that he lives for.
~ Elaine Scarry
The goal of the torturer is to make the one, the body, emphatically and crushingly present by destroying it, and to make the other, the voice, absent by destroying it.
~ Elaine Scarry
The severity and intensity of this disorder comes from the NPD individual's desperate pursuit to gain a sense of self. He consciously understands none of this, yet his inner need to feel worthwhile causes him to manipulate people in order to maintain an endless supply of attention, control, status, money, power, or recognition.
~ Eleanor D. Payson
The ultimate weapon for the abusive individual is the refusal to communicate directly....
~ Eleanor D. Payson
Above all is the NPD person's need for control, particularly in close relationships.
~ Eleanor D. Payson
the narcissist has learned that other people do not always do his bidding or meet his demands in the way that he expects. He has, therefore, developed formidable manipulation skills, at times deceitfully, to achieve his goals. Sometimes these skills are a highly developed ability to charm and bring others under his spell or influence.
~ Eleanor Payson
Así andaríamos más en orden.
~ Elena Garro
The flip side of anger is helplessness. This feeling of helplessness can quickly turn into anger or rage.
~ Eliana Gil
The flip side of helplessness is anger.
~ Eliana Gil
Every command leaves behind a painful sting in the person who is forced to carry it out.
~ Elias Canetti
The touch to which one resigns oneself because all resistance appears hopeless – and particularly so as regards the future – has, in our society, become the arrest . The feel of the hand of authority on his shoulder is usually enough to make a man give himself up without having to be actually seized. He cowers and goes quietly.
~ Elias Canetti
Romani su klinovi koje neki glumac što piše zabija u ?vrstu li?nost svojih ?italaca. Što bol?e prora?una klin i otpor, to ?e ta li?nost ostati raspolu?enija. Trebalo bi da država zabrani romane.
~ Elias Canetti
It is those who devote themselves to killing who have power.
~ Elias Canetti
It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion.
~ Elie Wiesel
Emotions have their effects even after you try to bully them out of existence.
~ Eliot Schrefer
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look "little" or "big.
~ Elisabeth Elliot