Quotes About Control

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.'" Alice

Some officers of his acquaintance had barked and yelled and shouted. He had always found it more effective to speak low and quiet, enunciating clearly and precisely as if to an idiot child, bearing down with an icy stare. That way he had found the implied menace to be unmistakable.

I took my right hand off the wheel and reverse-punched him square between the eyes. It was a good solid smack. It put him right back to sleep. Manual anesthetic. He stayed out all the way back to the post.

Handguns were in-room weapons. Under expert control in high-pressure situations the average range for a successful engagement was about eleven feet.

the only way to keep fear and panic at bay was to concentrate ruthlessly on the job at hand.

Law and order are everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.

A crowd two hundred strong was the largest animal on the face of the earth. The heaviest, the hardest to control, the hardest to stop. The hardest to kill. Big targets, but after-action reports always showed that crowds took much less than one casualty per round fired.

He drew back the string an extra inch. The arrowhead moved backward, the same inch, toward his hand, clenched tight around the grip. The bow curved harder. It sang with tension.

Does this thing have fast forward?" Sorenson asked. "Hold down the shift key," the kid said.

Suppose twenty years ago Congress had proposed a law saying every citizen had to wear a radio transponder around his neck, all day and all night, so the government could track him wherever he went. Can you imagine the outrage? But instead the citizens went right ahead and did it to themselves. In their pockets and purses, not around their necks, but the outcome is the same.

Smoke alarms are compulsory in homes because they contain cameras and microphones wirelessly linked to the government. With poison gas capsules too, in case the government doesn't like what you're saying or doing.

Why me? Why didn't you do it?" "Like they say in England, why buy a dog and bark yourself?

Ryantown ain't yours.

It's something they teach you in the army. The only thing under your direct control is how hard you work. In other words, if you really, really buckle down today, and you get the intelligence, the planning, and the execution each a hundred percent exactly correct, then you are bound to prevail." "Sounds empowering." "It's the army. What they really mean is, if you fail today, it's completely your own fault.

Where would the American feel dominant? This is a negotiation, we assume. He'd want a psychological advantage. He would want to be comfortable, and he would want the other guy to be uncomfortable.

The way to take out a gang is to hit the leader first.

He was still talking, audible now, the same flat tones from the telephone, scolding, belittling, humiliating, his head jerking above the vast wattle of his neck.

Clicked the cocking handle to the fire position and closed her hand around the grip.

guy with the money stood up.

Frenchman Honoré de Balzac wrong when he wrote, 'Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Don't give the man with the gun a reason to worry about you.

London has a quarter of the whole world's supply of closed circuit cameras, all in one city.

squirmed under the pressure. The leader squatted down and sorted through the

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.