Quotes About Control

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Love is like a fire, he decided. You could try to control it, but it wasn't always possible. Sometimes the flames burned you and sometimes they just warmed you from the inside out.

Stay there," he rasped, "or I swear to God, you'll still have the imprint of my hand on your ass when you're ninety!" Joellen

It was all about words. If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard to take them away.

Even men who use fear as their weapon can themselves be threatened. We all have something we don't want to lose.

But, remember, a tyrant hates to admit he is one," Faustus said quietly. "The worse he is, the more he claims—and even believes—that

any henchman who thinks himself the equal of his superior is dangerous.

And however often circumstances over which I had no control compelled me to forsake abodes that I had furnished with so much solicitude, I never learned my lesson.

Freud showed, too, how the mind, in one of its parts, could work without logic, yet not without that directing purpose, that control of intent from which, perhaps it might be said, logic springs. For the unconscious mind works without the syntactical conjunctions which are logic's essence.

But then I grew up, experienced some life, and I understood that when you merely switch from being a prisoner to being a guard, no one is freed, not even yourself.

why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it?

Devouring lives by the dozen, from the innocent to the not-so-innocent. It hardly mattered to him. He took, because destroying others was the only time he wasn't afraid.

Plans give you a list of tasks to keep you from drowning in your own fear. Plans give you a feeling of control, even if it's just an illusion at the time.

As an advocate of the Family Systems model, I would say that's because you have acknowledged the piece of yourself that you were uncomfortable with, the Exile, resulting in your true Self being once more centered and in control.

No pimp wants the hired help to achieve financial independence.

I've held a beating pulse between my fingers and I've squeezed. And it's the best goddamn feeling in the world. DIFFORD:

You did not kill my daughter, Annabelle. You were her best friend. You brought her immeasurable joy. Truth is, none of us control how much time we have here on earth. We can only control the life we lead while we have it. Dori led a loving, gracious, joyful existence. I think of that every morning when I wake up, and I think of it every night before I go to bed. My daughter had seven years of love.

Man can progress as much as we want. Mother Nature still owns our ass.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy

How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.