Quotes About Control

That place I'm talking about ain't nothing but a bloody slit in this world of His. But everybody wants to rule over it. It ain't for the white man to rule. Ain't for any man to rule.

As Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf put it, propaganda "must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.… [P]ersistence is the first and most important

We prefer to think of time as our servant, something we use and fill, rather than as our master, shaping

People who like authoritarianism always picture themselves running the show. But no one stays on top for long.

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

Deterence is only a stay of execution, not a reprieve.

Julius Tallow was a fool. He appeared complacent, but like a weak swimmer out of his depth, his legs were kicking frantically under the surface, trying to keep him afloat. Whatever happened, Nathaniel did not intend to sink with him.

Dazu bedarf es [...] vor allem des richtigen Namens. Ich meine, es ist ja nicht so, als bestellte man ein Taxi—bei einer Beschwörung kommt nicht einfach irgendwer !

Change couldn't be stopped, it couldn't be controlled. Sure as the debris brought in on the ceaseless tides, it would go on unendingly, for better or for worse.

He'd been many things to me, Nathaniel had, most of them indescribable. But he never looked so much of a puppet as he did now. And already it had all gone wrong.

Well, if it's so easy, Kitty demanded hotly, "how come the magicians haven't stopped it?" The Djin gave a cold smile, "Because it would require personal bravery. They never do anything themselves. They rely on us the whole time. Mandrake gives me an order and I obey. He sits at home and I go out and suffer. That's the way it works.

I warn you," the boy went on. "I am a magician of great power. I control many terrifying entities. This being you see before you" - here I rolled my shoulders back and puffed my chest up menacingly - "is but the meanest and least impressive of my slaves." (Here I slumped my shoulders and stuck my stomach out.)

According to studies, negating your thoughts and emotions may result in a paradoxical consequence in which they can impact you even more. You lose control over your inner experiences when you deny and suppress them. You could interpret that as a warning not to worry about a pink elephant. Your perception is still based on the denied material.

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

So many things shape our lives, our choices, our decisions, but in the end we make our own destiny. – Jack Maguire (hero)

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

The only person he cared about was the one he thought he could mould her into.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. Nineteen Eighty-Four             MYAUNGMYA

Big Brother really is everywhere.

Always it pays for a woman to find a lover who is weaker than she is. Weaker men can be handled; stronger men prefer to handle. - Celeste Talbot

I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal -- about twenty-five, a witty control freak. I like her but I can see how she would drive you mad. She's just the sort of person you'd want to get drunk, just to make her giggling and silly.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

Comprende una cosa esencial, y es que hay dos clases de personas: a las que puedes pegar y a las que no puedes, y que éstas no son las más fuertes o las mejor entrenadas, sino las que están dispuestas a matar. Éste es el único secreto, y el amable y pequeño Eduard decide pasarse al segundo bando: él será un hombre al que nadie pega porque se sabe que puede matar.