Quotes About Control

He was a good emperor. I won't say he is perfect, because he wasn't; no, my friends, no man is perfect and an emperor less than anybody, because he holds power in his hands, and power is as dangerous as an animal not fully tamed, dangerous as acid, sweet and fatal as poisoned honey.

I shall take two huge handfuls of his rustling hair as he lies half dreaming, half waking, and wind them into ropes, very softly, so he will not wake up, and, softly, with hands as gentle as rain, I shall strangle him with them.

I have sharp teeth inside my mouth, Inside my dark red lips, And lacquer slickly hides the claws In my red fingertips. So I conceal my armoury. Yours is all on view. You think you are possessing me- But I've got my teeth in you.

Degredation is the subtlest drug, the most insinuating. But they could do nothing to me I had not already imagined.

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.

Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your pretty looks, pet. Come here. She did not move. He ground out his cigarette on the window-ledge and laughed. Come here, he said again, softly. So she went.

My father lost me to the Beast at cards

She learns her lesson at once; to escape slavery, she must embrace tyranny.

Excretion is his first concrete production and, through it, the child gains his first experience of labour relations. He may reserve the right to go on excremental strike or to engage in a form of faecal offensive. The excremental faculty is a manipulative device and to be baulked of the free control of it is to be deprived of the first, most elementary, expression of autonomy.

One of Sade's cruellest lessons is that tyranny is implicit in all privilege. My freedom makes you more unfree, if it does not acknowledge your freedom, also.

the outcome of these things. As our King Solomon wrote, 'Man may throw the dice, but HaShem decides the outcome.

HaShem uses all things to work His will

Has anybody ever told you you're an evil woman?" -Reece "Who, me?" -Erin "Yes, you." -Reece "Li'l ole me?" -Erin "Sadistic goddess you, yes." -Reece "Do you want me to stop?" -Erin "Do you want me to hold you down and bang you like a screen door?" -Reece "Don't threaten the sadistic goddess, Reece." -Erin

Blaming yourself gives you the comfortable illusion of being in control.

The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.

Imagine having a similar conversation with yourself. "I can't get my eating under control. It's aggravating to me that I can't resist tempting foods." These thoughts are filled with self-doubt and diminish our hopes about making a change. A more helpful thought would be, "I'm feeling frustrated with my struggle to resist tempting foods, yet I can work on ways to overcome this challenge.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)

To be angry and not have the power to control your life. To not feel safe. To depend on a person who reminds you how they can hurt you, even kill you, at their whim. I understand.

When you fall in love, you have to play it out even if everyone calls you crazy. That's why they call it falling. We have no control over it.

Come on, hurry up," Marcia snapped impatiently at the spiral stairs. Taking her at her word, the stairs sped up to double daytime speed,

who was curled into a tight ball. And then past his master, Silas. Maxie felt uncomfortable going past Silas, because Silas was Top Dog and Maxie was Not Allowed in Front.

He listened intently. If there was one thing DomDaniel enjoyed, it was hearing the last scream of a human being.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.