Quotes About Control

Nobody's as powerful as we make them out to be.

It was just too tense, being with Daddy. He wanted everything done in a certain way that only he knew about. I was afraid to move half the time. One I spilled some juice on one of his foreign rugs, and he told me I would never find a husband.

In some hard-to-define way, her body felt right, the way some cars felt right, as if the controls had been custom made to your specifications.

Deze hier heeft nooit ontzag voor me gehad, nooit! Maar wees op je hoede, droogbloem, of ik zal je laten verwelken. Dan hou ik de regen tegen. Ja, ja... als ik me kwaad maak, dan kan ik hem zelfs nu nog wegjagen, dan valt er helemaal niets!' 'Dan hou je het maar tegen. Laat maar eens zien wat je kunt. Tot nu toe hebben we alleen maar mooie praatjes gehoord. Laat je magische kunsten maar zien.

Perfecte gastheren. Vehikels die je kunt gebruiken en waaraan je plezier kunt beleven, en dan weg kunt gooien. De weggooimaatschappij breidt zich uiteindelijk tot de mens zelf uit. Daar streeft Phobetor naar, een wereld waar de mens niet meer is dan een lege huls. Waar daemonen oppermachtig zijn en de volledige zeggenschap hebben over jullie aarde. - Leo

your family gives enough money to a school, that school will defend you to the death, no matter what the facts are behind that death. They're like cults you pay to be the leader of. And Brayburn, as I learned from Xenia, of all people, has been serving its devotees an especially potent strain of Kool-Aid.

She was to be a fine young man, at least in the cut of her clothing. Her manner, however, was not so easily stitched into masculinity. According to his lordship, she still needed to deepen her voice, be less careful with the placement of her arms and legs, and now also take up more space. No easy task since she had spent most of her life learning to control any excess gesture or movement.

You are most powerful when you are most silent. Poeple never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They except to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words leaping forth from their mouths. Silence? No.

Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you're making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet's diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that.

I will never give him the satisfaction of knowing how much he has wounded and enraged me. In my silence lies my strength.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

unspecified exhortation, when translated into practice, is always liable to a certain amount of executive misdirection

Her mother had once told her that whoever cares the least has the greatest advantage.

She shook her head. "I won't go." His chuckle had absolutely no humor in it. "You say that as if you have a choice." "There is always a choice.

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.

The family spiritual void has left the field open to rock music. The result is nothing less than parents loss of control over their childrens moral education at a time when no one else is seriously concerned with it.

A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, and male centered. It is also organized around an obsession with control and involves as one of its key aspects the oppression of women.... If men occupy superior positions, it's a short leap to the idea that men must be superior...[and that] whatever men do will tend to be seen as having greater value.

He viewed her as a farmer views a prize cow: she was someone who would give him what he wanted – namely, a large family – and he demanded she respect his need for utter subservience in the relationship

Women are to be conquered, subdued, the way a mountaineer conquers a peak or a matador slays a bull.

your pleasure, and that you can't live without it. When the nicotine level in your body falls, the Little Nicotine Monster triggers a pang around the stomach area which the Big Monster interprets as: "I want a cigarette." This is the nicotine trap—the ingenious way that cigarettes turn smokers into slaves. Each cigarette causes the craving for the next, to fill the emptiness caused by the nicotine leaving your body. And so it goes on, ad infinitum.

If you were in control of your smoking, you wouldn't be reading this book. If you could simply choose whether to smoke or not, you would choose to be a nonsmoker.

Client: "Could you teach me to have an occasional drink and not get hooked again?" Me: "Of course I could. I could even teach you to take the occasional dose of arsenic." Client: "Why on earth would I want you to do that?" Me: "Exactly!

It's like driving a car with your foot on the brake.

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.