Quotes About Control

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

Así resulta que la irrealidad tiene poder sobre la realidad.

Fate...may...be...thwarted.

I write fiction for lots of reasons. One is power. I'm in charge when I write. So are you. You create the world of the story. You make the rules.

Decisions were a delight after the curse. I loved having the power to say yes or no, and refusing anything was a special pleasure.

Admat, don't kill me! Don't be wrathful. Don't exist!

I'd be unnatural if I weren't enraged. And unnatural if I didn't act on my rage. Perhaps you couldn't help being angry. the earl answered, but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.

Gail Carson Levine

In 1936, the federal court struck down all federal restrictions against birth control, in a case memorably named U.S. v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries.

You were mine to protect and take care of, Jilly-girl. And the better I learned you, the deeper you burrowed into my soul. Every time I took a bit more control, the higher you flew in my arms. You were an addiction and a mystery…you fed my soul and drove me over the edge.

She was her steady self again, the one about whom Nonie had said, I admire that woman. Despite all her adversities, Beryl Jones manages to stay in control her days.

how does DNA control RNA? The structure of DNA must at least give us a hint.

While England may have lost control over its colonies, the British East India Company simply changed its name—a simple d.b.a.—and kept on trading.

Own nothing and control everything.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.

I always say that when a country wins with such overwhelming might, it's bad news for that country.

The gun lobby is certainly politically powerful, but it loses as many races as it wins.

I felt when I was gambling that the house always wins, and it was always like, how can I become the house? But when you're a band, you are the house because you can write the songs, you can wear your own clothes, you can pick where your show is. I can choose my own cards, basically.

No matter the wins and losses, you can control your attitude. You can control you coming into work each and every day with the right attitude and wanting to get better and trying to get better.

It doesn't matter who you play against in midfield, you need to try to come out on top and more often than not when a team wins a midfield battle they normally have a good chance of winning the game because that's where a lot of the play goes through.

In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it's really cold in the winter.

When you watch the top guys, you know there will be no drama all match. They're gonna wipe their face between points, they're gonna ask for balls, they're gonna choose the ball, they're gonna bounce the ball 200 times, they're gonna hit the ball, and that's it. That's the whole story.

All men are wired to be in control of what's going on in their life.

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.