Quotes About Control

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

Sometimes it doesn't feel like I'm in control but that I'm going along for the ride. And I'm a lousy passenger; I love to drive.

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

It's one thing to be groped and harassed by passers-by, but when the state gropes you, it gives a green light that you are fair game.

Democracy passes into despotism.

I like to have the ball first of all and to pass, these short passes to create the space at the right moment.

If you're having sequences where you're keeping 20 passes or more, then you're only growing in confidence in the game.

English footballers are honest - they will run for 90-odd minutes - but that is not always what you need. Sometimes you need to rein back a bit and try and control the game with your passing.

I'd say my main quality is keeping the ball and my passing.

But if men and women were not at the mercy of impersonal deities and random chance, they could no longer remain passive in the face of an unknown future. They had no choice but to begin making decisions over a far wider range of circumstances and over far longer periods of time than ever before.

The blind panopticon of capital remains after all, most vulnerable in the realm of 'magic' - the manipulation of images to control events, hermitic 'action at a distance'.

the Necronomicon is also a manual not only of dream interpretation (a la Freud) but of dream control.

Besatzungszonen unter Kontrolle zu bekommen,

The designer who aspires to build on the scale of an ecology must abandon the conceit of absolute control of her medium and instead seek the abstract understanding of the scientist, and then apply this understanding to natural processes with the force-subverting skill of the jujitsu master. We cannot specify an ecology, but nor are we powerless to affect its evolution.

There is a remarkably distinctive smell emitted by fearful bureaucrats. It is acrid, rank, and seems to cling to the clothing and the hair. Acting like a pheromone, it drives senior management to form small defensive herds from which to scream homicidally at middle management that they must not tell junior staff who can fix the problem what is going on because everything, including what has just been reported on the radio, is secret.

longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: "that God governs in the affairs of man." And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?

In other words, I like control. Not just being in control, but the awareness of control, the feel of control, and the ability to manipulate control itself.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

like an out of control fireman; there was a hissing

piombo,' said

The long arm of the law ends in the pimp hand of justice.

Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

It was the prerogative of the powerful to betray their servants. You played their game or you played your own. The end was the same.

Beyond a certain threshold, power erases embarrassment