Quotes About Control

When you can't figure Me out, you will give up the illusion of predictability and control and discover the joy and freedom of hope.

Religion is such an icky, sticky thing, full of tortuous—well, everything. Why is it so essential for man to be forced, for that is what religion relies on, force, to believe in anything but himself? And this is what John Winthrop should represent for us: the utter disdain he and Puritanism have for the self, for the human, for the human being.

Governors and legislators wanted the hostiles held in check and the bandits hung, but they wanted it all to be done with the fewest possible men on the cheapest possible horses. It irritated Call and infuriated Augustus.

He was annoyed with his mind—it would be a lot easier to do his task well if his mind would just behave and not keep making him scared.

They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.

He didn't like it that there were men who could scare him so badly that he was even afraid to take a shit.

Still, he was a salaried man. Even though Katie, who had been a good wife, was dead, he was not his own master.

He was still the captain, but no one had seemed to notice that there was no troop and no war.

We're in the hands of infinite power and infinite sadism.

The State has a superfluity of testicles, Peersa said with no particular emphasis.

They do not use lasers, they do not use radio, they do not use hyperwave. What are they using for communication? Telepathy? Written messages? Big mirrors? Parrots, Louis suggested. He got up to join them at the door to the control room. Huge parrots, specially bred for their oversized lungs. They're too big to fly. They just sit on hilltops and scream at each other.

It does not disturb me to play a god, he said. It disturbs me to play a god badly.

The empire purchased mines (by forced sale?), mined its own ore

I just wondered if the puppeteers didn't get their name by playing god with the species around them. They've treated humans and kzinti like puppets; there's no denying that.

We see that fear isn't something we own or have any control over. We've been living as if we do, as if we should be able not to feel it. But all we can do is meet it skillfully.

Followed rules, not dreams. Never again. -Margaret Hellerstein

Om det var något som Dick verkligen avskydde, var det detta som brukade kallas psykologi. Hela det fåniga och inte så litet aggressiva anspråket att förstå de andra. På ett särskilt, finare sätt. Ta kontroll över dem, genom att säga sig ha en större kunskap om människor än de själva hade.

Your body will no longer belong to you, she read, voice quavering. Once you are a slave, it is the instrument of your master's pleasure to use as he...as he wishes! Aiden's

Your body will no longer belong to you, she read, voice quavering. Once you are a slave, it is the instrument of your master's pleasure to use as he...as he wishes!

quoting Steinbeck-Peter said,'A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Maybe this only had to be as big as I let it be. So why was I letting it be everything?

Fate suggests no agency. Synchronization is all about agency. It involves all systems running in a state where different parts of the system are almost, if not precisely, ready.

Do I have a choice?" she says. "Yes," I say. "Always. With me you always do.

Because it puts it ultimately in our hands, doesn't it? What we choose to live with, and what we choose to live without.