Quotes About Control

Incest," she would say. "It's always occurred, rich or poor. You can read about it in the Bible. Up until the 1980s, you kept it hidden in the family. Why do they do it? It's a form of control. It's not sexual. It's all about power.

God steers, but you row.

You can't change the way he feels," the doctor said. "But you can change the way you react to what he says and does. You have power over that, Madeleine. His emotions don't have to dictate your responses.

The words were terrible, but they didn't have any power.

Love doesn't give you control—it takes control of you.

It made me feel as if I was taking back some control over my life when everything else had been shaken up so frighteningly.

Everything had come easily to her. her whole life: This was the only thing that remained resolutely beyond her control.

Make them do as you want them to, she said. I can't, mourned Anne. Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.

Mrs. Gibson has got her way all her life by leaving things to people's consciences.

There was a solid air about him as he walked through the pandemonium of the plant in his conservative gray suits. The thin veins on his massive cheeks were like the engraving on gilt-edged securities.

You sometimes see in a wind a piece of paper blowing about anyhow. Suppose the piece of paper could make the decision: 'Now I want to go this way.' I say: 'Queer, this paper always decides where it is to go, and all the time it is the wind that blows it. I know it is the wind that blows it.' That same force which moves it also in a different way moves its decisions.

The world is independent of my will.

ieri, pare che faceste all'altalena, e su, e giù, e io nel mezzo ad aggiustarmi e ad aggiustarvi a punto. Ah! avete creduto di giocarvi me, la mia vita? Avete fallito il colpo, cari miei! Io ho giocato voi.

Ma la causa vera di tutti i nostri mali, di questa tristezza nostra, sai qual è? La democrazia, mio caro, la democrazia, cioè il governo della maggioranza. Perché, quando il potere è in mano d'uno solo, quest'uno sa d'esser uno e di dover contentare molti; ma quando i molti governano, pensano soltanto a contentar se stessi, e si ha allora la tirannia più balorda e più odiosa: la tirannia mascherata da libertà.

Credi che non sorgano impeti di sentimenti anche in me? Ma io non li lascio scatenare; io li afferro, li domo; li inchiodo. Hai visto le belve e il domatore nei serragli? Ma non credere: io, che pure sono il domatore, poi rido di me perché mi vedo come tale in questa parte che mi sono imposta verso i miei sentimenti; e ti giuro che qualche volta mi verrebbe voglia di farmi sbranare da una di queste belve...

Only love can abjure power. Only love is strong enough to accept the weakness of not having power. Only love can outbid the offer of control made by evil.

But Murphy's Law in the world of heroin said that if things could get out of control, then of course they would.

Hadn't they confiscated our cell phones, our tablets, all of our screens and digital access to the outside? We were being held in an analog prison, said David.

In the wild, he thought, there would be almost no waiting. Waiting was what happened to you when you lost control, when events were out of your hands or your freedom was taken from you; but in the wild there would always be trying. In the wild there must be trying and trying, he thought, and no waiting at all. Waiting was a position of dependency.

Maybonne said Just because someone has lace-up hip huggers does not mean they can control the world. Then Magreet let her wear those pants. When my aunt saw them on her she shouted Are you trying to kill me?!

She called it a 'still—Volcano—Life', and that volcano heaves, close to the surface, throughout her poetry and a thousand letters. Stillness, for her, was not a retreat from life but a form of control.

Power is where power goes.

You touch—I kill!" the Indian growled ferociously.

You touch, I kill.