Quotes About Control

She knew how to go beyond the limit without ever truly suffering the consequences. In the end people gave in, and were even, however unwillingly, compelled to praise her.

when you don't know how to keep a man you lose everything, (…)

Suurin osa äideistä suhtautui kalseasti vapaana juokseviin koiriin. He siirsivät muut ahdistuksenaiheensa eläimiin.

Que desperdício seria, pensei, estragar nossa história dando espaço excessivo aos maus sentimentos: os maus sentimentos são inevitáveis, mas o essencial é represá-los.

Naquele momento, uma parte de mim desejava de fato discutir com ele sobre o mal que, enquanto você acha que está sendo boa, aos poucos ou de repente, se espalha pela cabeça, pelo estômago, por todo o corpo. De onde isso nasce, papai - eu queria perguntar -, como podemos controlar, e por que esse mal não elimina o bem, mas convive com ele.

She claimed that she was in the service of the workers, and yet, from her room in a house full of books and with a view of the sea, she wanted to command you, she wanted to tell you what you should do with your work, she decided for you, she had the solution ready even if you ended up in the street.

Palabras, con ellas se hace y se deshace a voluntad.

As a girl I had liked obscene language, it gave me a sense of masculine freedom. Now I knew that obscenity could raise sparks of madness if it came from a mouth as controlled as mine. So I closed my eyes, I held my hands and squeezed my eyelids.

Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.

Uno empieza a saber lo que es un gobierno, se da cuenta de lo que es, cuando este gobierno lanza los tanques a la calle. •Alfonso Salinas Moya, de la Escuela de Odontología de la UNAM

viento, te vas a volver estancia frente al mar; tú, sol, vas a entrar cuando yo te lo ordene; tú lluvia, vas a obedecerme y dejar que te almacene. Aquí yo soy el que resuelvo; ustedes, elementos, se concentrarán y dispersarán a mi antojo».

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

The Man's rage is huge. Moil and toil and turmoil, he's coming to the boil, time to cool the heat with a jet of foam. He wants the woman to take off her clothes right away. So that she measures up to his size. He wants to conduct his lightning into her. Not that his wildfire could ever be tamed by her, and anyway he has plenty of matches. To create himself anew, as often as need be.

Ah, lust! How one would like to make it the cornerstone of self! But I wouldn't go ahead and build on it if I were you.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

A literature major whom I knew slightly was walking her lame boyfriend around on a leash.

You wouldn't have a nervous breakdown. You'd give them a nervous breakdown." I forgave him for a lot when he said that. I forgave him for almost everything.

Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.

Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.

A joke is a question of mind over manner.

Nothing distresses the civilized person like unfettered nature. The Grand Canyon seen from behind the railing is indeed a splendid sight, but as soon as the desert reclaims your golf course that is another matter altogether.

personal privacy. That debate, a quaint twentieth-century one, is just ignorant background noise: the right to privacy is gone, lost already, or at least so compromised it's really worthless. No, the real present and future threat is manipulation, the inculcation of prescribed attitudes and modes of behavior into an unwitting citizenry, the unseen shift by the state from monitoring to control, the last chapter of the long tale of democracy, free will deformed into willing compliance.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralize them.

computer program can play havoc with climate-control systems. A particularly nasty pathogen—mutant strains of bacteria