Quotes About Control

Suddenly the black torturer laid down the pipes and rose, towering over the writhing white figure.

I can not trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

In (Ancient) Greece the search for knowledge was a linguistic endeavor. I suggest that in China, ideas of valid knowing derived in association with the notion of efficacious arts, or daos, and the central questions that lie behind the philosophical enterprise of early China concern control over action and events rather than understanding; the keys to understanding lay in daos rather than in theories.

Luthiel: I cannot change what will happen. I can only change how I act in the face of it.

La ira ?dijo Merlín? es tan sólo una expresión de la cólera. Hay desesperación, depresión, indefensión, desesperanza y, desde luego, impotencia. Todas las cosas que vos habéis sentido controladas por los hombres.

Los iraquíes querían el final de nuestra presencia así como del régimen de Sadam. Querían controlar su propio país y su propio petróleo. Los sirios querían recuperar el Golán. Los palestinos querían un Estado, aunque consistiera en menos del 22 por ciento del protectorado de Palestina, no un muro de seis metros y ocupación.

tanto Israel como los Estados Unidos acusarían a los palestinos de ser incapaces de «controlar» la violencia y de ser incapaces de aceptar un acuerdo que habría concedido un triste 64 por ciento del 22 por ciento de protectorado palestino pendiente de negociación. De manera que, antes de embarcarnos en esta vergonzosa historia de pérdidas y tragedias, es imprescindible dejar claro que Israel incumplió todos los acuerdos y pactos importantes

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

The size of an investor's brain is less important than his ability to detach the brain from the emotions.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.

No man can control his belief. You hear evidence for and against, and the integrity of the soul stands at the scales and tells which side rises and which side falls. You can not believe as you wish. You must believe as you must.

while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

Strike would have advised any friend to leave and not look back, but he had come to see her like a virus in his blood that he doubted he would ever eradicate; the best he could hope for was to control its symptoms.

Enough, he told his tired, hyperactive brain. Enough. And by the same power of will that in the army had enabled him to fall instantly asleep on bare concrete, on rocky ground, on lumpy camp beds that squeaked rusty complaints about his bulk whenever he moved, he slid smoothly into sleep like a warship sliding out on dark water.

She hadn't needed her own lawyer to point out that Matthew appeared to be trying to force her to spend money she didn't have on legal wrangling, to run down the clock and her resources until she walked away with as close to nothing as he could manage.

She's like that, always shifting the goalposts. What was right one minute was wrong the next. You had to walk on eggshells, you really did.

becos he fucks with people's heads. He's a control freak. he doesn't like anyone having relationships that don't involve him. Either you're a suck up like Hartella or you end up getting kicked out. Ive only lasted this long because he needs me

You have to break it, because if you don't, it might fade away. You've got to be in control. If you kill it, you don't have to watch it die

LAW 4 Always Say Less Than Necessary When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.