Quotes About Control

idea that you cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you feel about it. Or, as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Men choosing abuse need to be connected to choices. They are not powerless. Take them back to the beginnings of their relationship. They would have rarely used violence at the beginning of the relationship as their partner would have left them.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach...but you've got to make them fly in formation.

The Ruling Class by Peter Barnes.

Just dismissing them gave me a kind of power over them. That was the whole method of the con, even when I was conning myself. These

Christian fundamentalism: the doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.

A driver is a king on a vinyl bucket-seat throne, changing direction with the turn of a wheel, changing the climate with a flick of the button, changing the music with the switch of a dial.

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

If you doubt how far our civilization has turned into a helpless self domesticated livestock, just look at the world around you

Human history, properly understood, starts when we move from being just another form of prey in the cycle of eat-and-be-eaten, a creature blown about by the natural world, to a creature beginning to shape the world.

I have a pretty clear memory of most of that night, but even while it was happening, it was like a dream, where you do things you don't want to do but can't control your own actions.

A man who believes that a convincing lie can shape the cosmos in a way he sees fit may not have a problem erasing one or two inconvenient barriers in his path. Obstacles that happen to be sitting in his private jet.

Cardiff thinks I'm tied up with them? I've half a mind to tell him to go fuck himself right now. Fortunately, the rational side of my brain keeps me from going all McPherson on him. I take a slow breath and put the regulator back in my mouth as I slip under the waves

He's trying to assert his authority by calling me onto the carpet. It's a show of force. It's weak.

Nature controls us more than we want to admit.

The President?" "No. Somebody with real power.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws could be sustained under the existing legal framework if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger society. Civilized Sciences Foundation, CSF Congressional Report 1975

He's a particular kind of sociopath. The kind that makes a great politician. He makes you think he loves you until you stand in his way. And then when he does something to fuck you over, he makes you think it's your fault." "And you know this from experience?

Life is decided by thousands of external and internal forces.

Ophiocordyceps unilateralis.

No matter what they say, Democrats and Republicans in the United States do not control the government because they are best able to serve us and meet our needs. In fact, both parties couldn't care less about us.

How do I shoot?" "Your finger through there. Feel that? But you only pull if you're sure that everything's right." "Why?" "Because you can't take it back." She

could not accept a position of general responsibility for war policy without an effective share in its guidance and control

The Italian city-state of Genoa had nominally ruled Corsica for over two centuries, but rarely tried to extend her control beyond the coastal towns into the mountainous interior, where the Corsicans were fiercely independent. In 1755 Corsica's charismatic nationalist leader, Pasquale Paoli, proclaimed an independent republic, a notion that became