Quotes About Control

Yet I honestly think that in her absence, and over time, she became powerfully present to him. Perhaps this is simply the way it is with writers. It is when they don't see you that you matter. Because then you can belong to them in a way that permits them complete possession. You are determined by them. You are controlled. You are, generally speaking, exaggerated.

Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do that better than a good sound beating.

Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do better than a good sound beating. (Walker 2000: 34)

Anger can also be a kind of wealth, she thought.

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

And you are the girl's bitch, forever.

Be well advised what ye put in his head, for ye shall never pull it out again.

One French ambassador, having witnessed the royal temper, confided, 'When I see her enraged against any person whatever, I wish myself in Calcutta, fearing her anger like death

Because, when it came down to it, power depended only on a woman's body not letting her down.

people who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.

Henry was right to observe that two players left Wings, and Paul hadn't asked why. But Paul hadn't asked why because he knew the answer. The dispute that led to McCullough's departure mirrored fights he'd had with Harrison over what to play and how to play it, as well as Lennon's complaint, in that painful Rolling Stone interview, about Paul treating them as sidemen. He was, once again, accused by his bandmates of being a control freak.

SUMMARY • Nicotine is the addictive poison which hooks you. It's the No.1 killer. • Smokers go on smoking despite all the obvious disadvantages because they're in a trap. • Nicotine addiction is what keeps smokers smoking. It's a disease. • You are not in control of your smoking. The cigarette controls you. CHAPTER 2

We confuse responsibility with stress. Responsibility becomes stressful only if you are not strong enough to handle it.

kill the Big Monster first. You unravel the brainwashing and see alcohol for what it really is: an addictive poison that controls and debilitates those who take it. Then the Little Monster is easy to deal with. In fact, you can enjoy the process, confident in the knowledge that you're destroying a mortal enemy.

The body cannot crave nicotine. Only the brain can crave.

I was in control of every area of my life except for smoking. The cigarette was deciding where I could go, what I could do, when I could do it and with whom.

our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry

When Violence floods the State from above, flowery land razed for robot proliferation

The sudden acquisition of power does not go to the head, but to the groin. In some, it promotes lust; in others, supplants it. Those on whom its effect is purely cerebral may indeed be counted as fortunate.

Far enough away from the White House to live above land, she thought. That was a good one: menacing yet vague.

Do we say to the wind, do you wish not to blow? Do we say to the thunder, would you rather be silent? No. We never think of these things.

Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but pervades and regulates the whole. He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

Marriage , n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.