Quotes About Control

That sorceress might be an evil bitch, but she's my evil bitch. And I'll have no other." —Rydstrom Woede, fallen demon king of Rothkalina

the uncontrolled senses are considered plunderers. The good position one attains by executing religious principles is wasted as the plundering senses take it away

Maybe, she thought with some perversity, it wasn't the gods who controlled the universe, but cats. Cats who toyed with humans as a puppeteer would a marionette.

The only power he has is what you give him. Ginny to Michael

Power with conditions was no power

Mr Gandhi thought)...The parliament system was too slow at times unproductive , and it never gave a free hand to the person at the top....

El futuro es un vacío indiferente que no le interesa a nadie, mientras que el pasado está lleno de vida y su rostro nos excita, nos irrita, nos ofende y por eso queremos destruirlo o retocarlo. Los hombres quieren ser dueños del futuro sólo para poder cambiar el pasado.

Ljudi izvikuju kako žele da stvore lepšu budu?nost, ali to nije istina. Budu?nost je praznina prema kojoj su svi ravnodušni, koja nikoga ne zanima, dok je prošlost puna života i njeno lice nas izaziva, ljuti, vre?a tako da ga želimo uništiti ili premazati bojom. Ljudi žele da budu gospodari budu?nosti samo zato, da mogu da menjaju prošlost.

Politicians were creatures controlled by passion and it was most effective to quietly absorb that energy without actually giving ground.

Voters are idiots who do what they're told.

If you want to turn your life around you're going to have to start making things happen and stop allowing things to happen to you.

No, no, Mr. Dade, this is my ride now. I make the rules.

I try to forget that only this morning I had lost control.

The throne belongs to whoever is able to take it.

wonderful power the Silver Shoes gave her. So the Wicked Witch laughed to herself, and thought, I can still make her my slave, for she does not know how

I think you had better learn to control that imagination of yours,Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isnt.

Being in love makes you a perfect slave, I think. And it would give a man such power to hurt you

he didn't care who ran the universe—he'd break whatever rules it suited him to disobey in any case, whoever was in charge—

These recent weeks have taught me that I am not in control of my own destiny, and that powers much larger than I are at war in this world. I can only be faithful to the tasks set before me. The rest is out of my hands.

The small Hitlers are around us every day.

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.