Quotes About Control

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

What does it mean when the monsters are so afraid of you that you make them cry? That maybe monster depends on which end of the gun your on, or that I was just that good at my job.

I didn't try to pull away; things that can bench-press Toyotas don't let go.

Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

You have a high opinion of yourself, Anita. Confident. I like that. Always so much more entertaining to break someone strong. The weaklings fold and cry and snivel, but the brave ones, they almost demand that you hurt them. He stalked towards me, reaching out one white spider-hand. Do you want me to hurt you?

I didn't like having my inhibitions lowered. If i was going to cut loose, i wanted to be in control of just how loose i got.

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

Let's pretend it is a threat, because you need to understand that the other officers aren't keeping me safe from you; they're keeping you safe from me.

You're the scarest motherfucker in the room.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Slow is steady. Steady is smooth. Smooth is fast. Fast is deadly.

Powerful and paranoid—it was a recipe for royalty.

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Yes, but it is frightening and romantic for the Queen to say, 'Where is my Darkness, bring me my Darkness,' and someone would bleed or die at his hand." "You

You're the scariest motherfucker in the room.

Sono un succubo. Sono una vampira che invece di succhiare sangue si nutre di sesso, e se non mi nutro assorbo l'energia di Damian e di Nathaniel, col rischio di ucciderli. Io stessa morirei senza nutrirmi. Credo che Jean-Claude possa proteggere se stesso e Richard da me. Nonostante questo, potrei ucciderci tutti se non imparassi ad amministrare il mio triumvirato di potere.

Because he'd scared me, I was mad at him. Illogical, but it was better to be mad than scared.

Show me you have enough power to make it worth my while, and I'll give you any body fluid you want.

I'd had Jean-Claude drive the metaphysical bus before, but I'd never felt it like this, never been so aware of how terribly aware he was of his power, of my power, of the power we all offered him. He was vampire, which meant he was a cold power, a thing of logic, because emotions do not trouble the dead. He shifted through our talents, like Edward would have looked through his gun safe. Which gun will do the job? Which will make this shot?

An absolute monarch who believes in free will, isn't that against the rules? Onilwyn asked. No, I said, my face buried against Adair's skin, it's not. Not against my rules. My voice was beginning to drag with that edge of sleep. I think I will like your rules, Onilwyn said and his voice, too, was growing heavy. The rules, yes, Rhys said, but the housework is a bitch.

He gets power from his line, his master," I said, "it isn't always about personal power." "Truth and Wicked have no masters, do you?" The