Quotes About Control

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone's face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone's skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person's body at your thrall.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

Sejak jaman nabi sampai kini, tak ada manusia yang bisa terbebas dari kekuasaan sesamanya, kecuali mereka yang tersisihkan karena gila. Bahkan pertama-tama mereka yang membuang diri, seorang diri di tengah-tengah hutan atau samudera masih membawa padanya sisa-sisa kekuasaan sesamanya. Dan selama ada yang diperintah dan memerintah, dikuasai dan menguasai, orang berpolitik.

Memerintah pekerja pun kau tidak bisa karena kau tak bisa memerintah dirimu sendiri, Memerintah diri sendiri kau tak bisa karena kau tak mau bekerja.

Karena itu, Ann, kau harus kuat. Kalau tidak, orang akan sangat mudah jadi permainan, dan terus dipermainkan oleh orang-orang semacam dia itu.

Ya, anakku, selama hidupku yang limapuluh enam tahun ini tahulah aku, bahwa usaha dan iktiar manusia itu sangat terbatas. Aku sendiri tak membiarkan adikmu sakit bila saja aku berkuasa atas nasib manusia.

Tapi perintah tinggal perintah begitu saja.

Ah, itu serdadu manja kalau menang perang sekali saja! Kemenanganku lebih dari padanya. Aku pernah menguasai dia hanya karena aku tidak seperti perempuan-perempuan lain.

Wanita budak paling baik hanya untuk pria budak.

Kalau Dedes tidak takut padamu. Apalagi pada pengawal-pengawalmu. Akupun bisa memerintah mereka!

Hamba hukum itu, Ann, dia tak bisa dilawan.

Capital dictates the fate of humanity.

Kekuatan pikiran yang memimpin, bukan hanya keberanian dan teror,

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test? (to a driving instructor in Scotland)

When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.

Sometimes he lashed out just to drive home a point. If he thought it would teach us a lesson, he'd blow some minor grievance out of all proportion, and even as he was yelling he might wink at someone nearby. Then, ten minutes later, he'd be fine, leaving us bewildered and emotionally depleted. There were also times he would leave us emotionally uplifted. He was truly a master at manipulating people.

I want my life to radiate what happens when God has a person's heart at His full control, when every event or circumstance is simply another avenue to know Him better and show forth His glory.

Strike or Bandh is the biggest form of hooliganism stealthily orchestrated and sponsored by politicians to bedevil the population.

The easiest way to ruin any country is to sell its public sector business entity to the private sector company.

Bow down , I am the emperor of perceptions.

Leadership and Willpower are synonyms.