Quotes About Control

Halt nodded at him gratefully. "Exactly. We need to elect a leader - and give him the power to make decisions and the authority to have those decisions obeyed and carried through. Otherwise we're like a band of headless chickens." "But dangerous chickens nonetheless," Leander said with a faint smile.

Advance," he said softly. Then, as the bugler beside him didn't hear the words, he turned, his face expressionless, and whipped the man across the face with his leather-covered steel riding crop.

Hij was de heer van Nacht en Ontij. Hij was ook niet helemaal goed bij zijn hoofd. Zoveel was wel duidelijk.

Every fiber of his being wanted to run, to get to the stables as quickly as he could. But he forced himself to walk casually, to avoid attracting attention to himself

Ik was bang dat ik haar op een gegeven moment met een roeiriem op haar kop zou slaan... En dat was vast niet goed voor mijn carrière. - Alyss, over Evanlyn

What . . . do I have to do exactly?" "If anyone annoys me, you squash him," Hal told him and Ingvar nodded happily.

Self doubt is like a disease. And if it gets out of control it becomes self fulfilling.

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.

Control is made of knowing what we have, and what we want,' said the daemon, and I felt an echo of its satisfaction shiver through me. 'Power is having something that someone else wants and cannot have.

There is a baptism that belongs to Jesus. It is in His supreme control. No angel or man can bestow it. It comes from Him alone. He it is which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost (John 1:33). So the individual who wants the Holy Spirit must come into definite, conscious contact with Jesus Christ Himself.

IF A SYSTEM CAN BE EXPLOITED, IT WILL BE. ANY SYSTEM CAN BE EXPLOITED. CHAPTER

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...

I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..

freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...

I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...

I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

I pride myself, after long experience, that I can begin and stop weeping at the exact points demanded in the script.

Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.

We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.