Quotes About Control

Glocks: the only guns that come with a side of daddy issues.

For eleven years, I've been worked over and abused in ways you can't imagine by things you don't want to know about. I've killed every kind of vile, black-souled, dead-eyed nightmare that ever made you piss your pj's and cry for mommy in the middle of the night. I kill monsters and, if I wanted, I could say a word and burn you to powder from the inside out. I can tear any human you ever met to wet rags with my bare hands.

She's used to getting what she wants and seeing that she's not going to this time, she radiates a primal hate so pure that you could bottle it and sell it as napalm.

It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.

That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream "Daddy Issues.

How many things do we have control over in our life? Just about zero, right? But that doesn't stop us from trying to control everything. And this is a major source of tension and stress.

The only thing we can control is our response.

What we know for sure is that rulers did not appreciate having astrologers forecast the time and manner of their demise. As

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

We can change the way that we think about external events, even where we cannot change them. And we can do something more. We can intelligently change our exposure to events that make us either happy or unhappy.

Adults need to come to understand that the child does not want any of our power. He merely wants some of his own.

Parents cannot protect and guide without controlling and restricting. Children cannot become individuals without resisting and attacking. The process of child rearing is, therefore, inherently conflictual.

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

I hate how the media tries to control our minds. It's a new form of very subtle fascism.

It was frightening and wonderful to surrender to the wind's power.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

With software there are only two possibilites: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

Sometimes I venture to call my soul my own

The President can bomb anybody he likes.

When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.

You're not my boss, Alan." He returned to his game. Honestly, my first instinct was to smack the kid, but i doubted that would fly with his parents.