Quotes About Control

The real aim of colonialism was to control the people's wealth, what they produced, how they produced it," Ng?g? wa Thiong'o sees the way that control was introduced and managed was to deconstruct the people's sense of self and replace it with that of the colonizer. This would occur when a people's perception of themselves and their world was overthrown.

The problem in both human and ape history is that political power is built on physical power - and physical power is ultimately the power of violence or its threat.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Limitation makes for power. The strength of the genie comes of his being confined in a bottle.

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

For a year she found an exquisite pain - almost pleasure - in facing the world as if she didn't care. Look at me, she would say to herself in the middle of a trying day. Look at me: I'm surviving; I'm coping; I'm in control of all this.

A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.

The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up

Adrian!" Something inside of me burst. "Will you shut the hell up for five seconds?

Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds.

Do not do that again," he said stiffly. "Don't kiss me back then," I retorted. He stared at me for what seemed like forever. "I don't give 'Zen lessons' to hear myself talk. I don't give them because you're another student. I'm doing this to teach you control." "You're doing a great job," I said bitterly.

I'm really not good with impulse control.

She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.

Gaining superpowers doesn't mean you know how to use them.

I don't want to. Believe me. But I can't help it. Rose said in time, I'll learn the control to keep his feelings out, but I can't do it now. And he has so much, Sydney. So much feeling. He feels everything so strongly— love, grief, anger. His emotions are up and down, all over the place. What happened between him and Rose . . . it tears him apart.

I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.

You have to protect her. The more she uses it, the worse it'll get. Stop her, Rose. Stop her before they notice, before they notice and take her away too. Get her out of here." [...] "Don't let her use the power!. . .Save her. Save her from herself!

Statistics show that most mortals sell their souls for five reasons: sex, money, power, revenge, and love. In that order.

Victor smiled through the pain and the blood. "Of course you have. I used to think Belikov was the savage one, but it's really you, isn't it? You're the animal with no control, no higher reasoning except to fight and kill.

Life, unfortunately, doesn?t seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.

I didn't get her cutting at all. She'd done it sporadically, ever since the accident and it scared me each time. She'd try to explain it to me, how she didn't want to die—she just needed to get it out somehow. She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet—physical pain—was the only way to make the internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.

Rose Hathaway: "You see something you like?" Dimitri Belikov: "Get dressed.

Those words, that voice, had more power over me than any phantom ever could.

Dimitri: "Do not do that again."Rose: "Don't kiss me back then."- Dimitri Belikov & Rose Hathaway (Frostbite)