Quotes About Control

Simon drove as if he knew something about physics that Einstein hadn't thought of and God never intended. If nature abhorred a vacuum, Simon positively loathed one, and rushed to fill in the tiniest gap in the heavy flow of speeding traffic. He passed on the right, left, center, and all variations in between, and the Keble responded as if involved in some kind of blood compact with its human master.

He who speaks least has the most power.

We go off the meds and elect Richard Nixon, the Nurse Ratched of the American political psych ward.

The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermetrics baseball people. They believe the numbers say it all, and when the numbers don't say what they want them to, they massage them like Koreans on Eighth Avenue until they get a happy ending.

I'm sorry to pull you out of your classes, but your adviser understands," Kitteredge said. "He's a friend of the family." So that's it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me.

People don't run the cartel; the cartel runs people.

Victoria was always nagging him to eat better, drink less, and go to the gym, but then again, Pablo has long felt that she (barely) sublimates her innate fascism with exercise and diet regimens and has recently taken to attending weekly "boot camp" sessions where she probably achieves orgasms as some steroid-enraged instructor screams at her. Ana

If you let people believe that you're weak, sooner or later you're going to have to kill them.

The cartel has bought the White House. We've crossed the border now.

Él que menos habla es el más chingón. He who speaks least has the most power.

This stretch of road is not where you want to fuck up. You slip on the kozmic banana peel coming down these switchbacks you are suddenly Lost in Space, man. You are Rocky the Flying Squirrel, you are air-borne... You can have eighteen wheel drive and it won't matter, if all those wheels are in the sky. What you don't have is wings, or a parachute, which is what you're going to need if you screw up the distinction between centrifugal and centripetal force on one of these curves.

If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you're going to have to kill them.

The Great Depression." What better way to control a free society than to take away their ability to buy, save, and grow?

No man's plenum ... is impervious to the awl of God's will.

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

In the cab going downtown, Doug believed he now understood the sensations felt by a person slowly sinking into the grasp of an octopus. Play dead, he told himself. But how?

But after a person has been in analysis for nearly four years, it becomes second nature to automatically study and dissect all dreams and dream fragments. With his mind busily seeking the symbolic content of darkness, rubber masks, and strange voices, he couldn't completely lose control, or remain panic-stricken for very long. "Oh," he said, sighing with relief, "it's just the kidnappers.

Don't move," he said, in a voice that was forty percent gravel and sixty percent inert materials.

What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering." (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)

decentralized control is not simply a philosophy; it is a set of technical skills that can be developed and practiced.

If you have an overdeveloped ego, you are not scared of surrender.

today influence belongs to a carefully selected handful of partisan advisors and senior deputy ministers.

The advantage always favors the one who is trying to create fear, over the one who is trying to erase it."87

If you don't believe others can end your suffering, why believe they can end your happiness?