Quotes About Control

Már régen tökélyre vitte azt a képességet, hogy csak azt lássa, akit látni akar, ami létfontosságú készség, ha az ember a világnak nem áldozata, hanem ura akar lenni.

Rage made you the creature of those who enraged you, it gave them to much power. Rage killed the mind...

Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.

How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute: what then?

As we will see, it did not succeed. In this way Pampa learned the lesson every creator must learn, even God himself. Once you had created your characters, you had to be bound by their choices. You were no longer free to remake them according to your own desires

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, power to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, are truly powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

It's as if we're standing still and the world is traveling past us. Or maybe the world is TV and I don't know who's in charge of the zapper.

Unnerved by Miss Salma R's temporal absolutism, the clocks gave up arguing and stopped trying to run the hours in the normal fashion, so that when people looked in their direction to see what the time was, the clocks showed them whatever time they wanted it to be, and in spite of the chronometric havoc that was created by this abdication they still permitted everyone to get home on time.

It isn't right for the artist to become the servant of the state.

Als je in de twintigste eeuw leeft, valt het niet moeilijk in hen die wanhopiger zijn dan jijzelf en die proberen het leven naar hun wil te modelleren, jezelf te ontmoeten.

Deha zenginlerin kölesi deÄŸildir.

What sort of god could be excused the actions of his followers? Didn't it, in a way, infantilise the deity to say he was powerless against the faithful?

The machine of state bearing down upon its enemies.

A camera requires law, order, the thin blue line.

A compulsory ocean sounds worse than a forbidden well.

But the city in its corruption refused to submit to the dominion of the cartographers

But India has a population problem and its left parties also ignore birth control. So after the CPI there was the CPI(M), the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) a.k.a. CPI(M-L). Enough parties? Babe, the party's only just getting started.

La moderación también está entre nuestras tradiciones, Begum. Come dos bocados menos del hambre que tengas: mortificación, la senda del ascetismo.» Qué hombre: conocía todas las respuestas, pero no había manera de tener con él una buena pelea.

The limitations we place upon the world are imposed by ourselves rather than the world.

No dominion is everlasting.

But what I learned from the Widow's Hand is that whose who would be gods fear no one so much as other potential deities

Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.

None of these adventitious mental states are the real you. You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.