Quotes About Control

Harpernus Stoyan, if you can't behave yourself and go and turn all Roman hands and Russian Fingers under that comforter, you're going to have to sit on the couch, Stephanie snapped, sounding for all the world like a stern schoolteacher.

Good Lord, not again! What the devil is it with you and libraries that makes you unable to control yourself in them, James? You have always had a passion for books, but really! I fear she is right. I always have had a passion for libraries. Still, I never realised quite how much pleasure they could afford until I met you.

Alexander also controlled me. Made me do things I didn't want to do." "Isn't that kind of the job of a parent?" Elvi asked, and then said, "Not the controlling part, but making the kid do things they don't want to do. Although," she said thoughtfully, "even the controlling part is something parents have to do too, only it's usually done with rewards, grounding, and threats of punishment rather than straight-up taking control.

Having a mate you can control means winning every argument, because you can make them agree with you. But it's as good as living alone, or with a blow-up doll. They would do what you want, when you want, because you make it so. It's just better and healthier to have a real partner, one with thoughts and ideas of their own, and whom you can't control. It makes them special.

I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

Self-discipline is self-caring.

necrophilia to include the desire of certain people to control others—to make them controllable, to foster their dependency, to discourage their capacity to think for themselves, to diminish their unpredictability and originality, to keep them in line.

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

With total discipline we can solve all problems.

Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

My time was my responsibility. It was up to me and me alone to decide how I wanted to use and order my time.

The evil create for those under their dominion a miniature sick society.

She never let me be me. She made me in her image. She made me, made me, made me. She never let any of me be me.

Let beloved idiots ruin their own lives, if that's what they're dead set on doing, with no attempt whatsoever at control or behavior modification from you.

men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it.

But utopias always lead to dystopias, and dictators invariably become gods who demand daily worship.

From now on, every individual, irrespective of rank, must submit their dreams and nightmares to me for examination and approval. If they fail to comply, every dream they have ever had, and every dream they ever will have, will be deemed an illegal dream!

Why is it that men are so good at turning their heaven into a hell?

I want to be able to hump people's legs and have them do nothing about it.

Não se luta contra o destino; o melhor é deixar que nos pegue pelos cabelos e nos arraste até onde queira alçar-nos ou despenhar-nos.

Tão certo é que a paisagem depende do ponto de vista, e que o melhor modo de apreciar o chicote é ter-lhe o cabo na mão.

Que pour être efficace, il faut cacher ses intentions.

De là naît une dispute: s'il est meilleur d'être aimé que craint, ou l'inverse. On répond qu'on voudrait être l'un et l'autre; mais comme il est difficile de les marier ensemble, il est beaucoup plus sûr d'être craint qu'aimé, quand on doit manquer de l'un des 2.

From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both.