Quotes About Control

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

Simply put: time is fluid. The faster your world spins out of control, the slower timer crawls. The more time you need, the less you're sure to get. It's all relative

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

Nae man can tether time nor tide.

I don't know what this Liberty thing is all about, Rachel. None of us do, yet. I pray that if we ever achieve it, we will know how to control it. And not let it control us.

Wherever Law Ends, Tyranny Begins"—John Locke.

But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.

You gotta love a country where there are rules for being poor, and rich people make them.

People go through life thinking they're making decisions, when they're really just making plans, which is not the same thing at all.

After all those years of people counting off seconds in her earpiece, I swear she has time wired into every bit of her body, so that it was almost exactly an hour when she climbed out.

Los hombres siempre creen poder mejorar a la Naturaleza y corregir la obra de Dios.

Totalitarian regimes, they declared, all had at least five things in common: a dominant ideology, a single ruling party, a secret police force prepared to use terror, a monopoly on information, and a planned economy. By those criteria, the Soviet and Nazi regimes were not the only totalitarian states. Others—Mao's China, for example—qualified too.

This form of soft dictatorship does not require mass violence to stay in power. Instead, it relies upon a cadre of elites to run the bureaucracy, the state media, the courts, and, in some places, state companies.

Although the definition of an 'enemy of the state' changed over time, the mechanisms to deal with these enemies were put in place right at the very beginning.

he dislikes me to have any pleasure but in himself, any shadow of homage or kindness but such as he chooses to vouchsafe: he knows he is my sun, but when he chooses to withhold his light, he would have my sky to be all darkness; he cannot bear that I should have a moon to mitigate the deprivation.

I'm seething with rage, yet I can't show it.

I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there's not much you can do about inherited traits.

People who flush easily become even more agitated when they feel themselves getting hot under the collar, and they quickly lose to their opponents.

Kitty, if only you knew how I sometimes boil under so many gibes and jeers. And I don't know how long I shall be able to stifle my rage. I shall just blow up one day. Still

Everyone has to decide for himself how to get the better of his own mood