Quotes About Control

I get enraged at the tyranny of text." "What's that?" "You know. Left to right. Punctuation. Page 1, page 2, page 3.

She says it's like a switch - a big red PANIC switch - gets flipped in my head and I can't turn it off. She says we're going to figure out how to turn it off.

I feel like a marionette - like someone else is pulling the strings and I have no choice but to comply.

whatever is happening outside, Beta, your must not let it sink into your flesh. Do not punish your body for what it cannot control.

Or I might be able to catch one, a little girl for example, and half strangle her, three quarters, until she promises to give me my stick, give me soup, empty my pots, kiss me, fondle me, smile to me, give me my hat, stay with me, follow the hearse weeping into her handkerchief, that would be nice. I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncomfortable than that other can make oneself.

It is no diminution of power not to be able to do things which are no object of power.

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession

Power is always gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

Tomorrow I purpose to regulate my room.

How small, of all that human hearts endure,That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,Our own felicity we make or find.

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Hadji Murat, Tolstoy's posthumous novella recounting the difficulties of maintaining imperial control in the face of Muslim terrorism, could not seem prophetic to Americans for decades. For a long time, his warnings about making war humane were inapplicable as

The United States would be a more willing container of China, but in the mid-1990s it is unclear how far it will go to contest an assertion of Chinese control over the South China Sea.

Hanem ezentúl kevésbé tisztelem a királyokat, látva, hogy az es?nek ?k sem tudnak parancsolni.

Son, this whole town's my personal urinal. Makes me feel like I own it, pissin' all over the fuckin' thing.

To live within the tethers of desire is—again and again—to be shocked at how far they have come loose from reason

Do you think a city can control the way the people live inside it? I mean, just the geography, the way the streets are laid out, the way the buildings are placed?

She nodded. "In the ship, the pilot's nervous system is connected directly with the controls. The whole hyperstasis transit consists of him literally wrestling the stasis shifts. You judge by his reflexes, his ability to control his artificial body. An experienced Transporter can tell exactly how he'll work with hyperstasis currents.

We raised them in, oh, such a carefully controlled nutrient environment, speeding the growth rate by hormones and other things. But the beauty of it was the experiential imprinting. Gorgeously healthy creatures; you have no idea how much care they received." "I once spent a summer on a cattle farm," Rydra said shortly. The

Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.