Quotes About Control

The old monetary mole is the animal of the spaces of enclosure, but the serpent is that of the societies of control. We have passed from one animal to the other, from the mole to the serpent, in the system under which we live, but also in our manner of living and in our relations with others. The disciplinary man was a discontinuous producer of energy, but the man of control is undulatory, in orbit, in a continuous network.

Kita hanya membutuhkan sedikit keteraturan untuk melindungi diri dari chaos.

Lo que más falta nos hace es creer en el mundo, así como suscitar acontecimientos, aunque sean mínimos, que escapen al control, hacer nacer nuevos espaciotiempos, aunque su superficie o su volumen sean reducidos [ ]. La capacidad de resistencia o, al contrario, la sumisión a un control, se deciden en el curso de cada tentativa.

Safer to be feared than loved.

Unconditional love is an undisciplined love and, as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.

I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn't perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming and all that, but she was also controlling and OCD and a drama queen and a bit of a liar. Which was fine by me. It just wasn't fine by her. She got rid of me because I knew she wasn't perfect.

I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them," Amma said, pulling another Blow Pop from her pocket. Cherry. "Know what I mean? If someone wants to do fucked-up things to you, and you let them, you're making them more fucked up. Then you have the control. As long as you don't go crazy.

I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.

She'll never really let me go. She likes the game too much. Then stop playing it.

A veces sienta bien joder a alguien. En vez de que siempre lo jodan a uno

Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with.

The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it's near. Midtongue.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them. Know what I mean? If someone wants to do fucked-up things to you, and you let them, you're making them more fucked up. Then you have the control. As long as you don't go crazy.

I take a giant breath, roll my anger up into a red rubber ball, and mentally kick it out into space.

We had spent years battling for control of our marriage, of our love story, our life story. I had been thoroughly, finally outplayed. I created a manuscript, and she created a life.

Frankly, I think Adora prefers us to feel like strangers. She wants all relationships in the house to run through her.

being an only child—you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die. There isn't a replacement toddling around; you're it. It makes you desperate to be flawless, and it also makes you drunk with the power. In such ways are despots made.

Only Tanner Bolt could get away with making me, a client, fly to him, then tell me what kind of dance I'd need to do in order to give him my money.

Sometimes guys, they make things hard for us just because they can.

Desi rarely says jackfuck or shitbag; he says swine, which sounds more poisonous on his lips.

Throwing things near her but not exactly at her. I'm sure he told himself: I never hit her. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun. Don't make me turn this car around. Please, really, turn it around.

Pero ¿Quién gana aquí? Gano yo, porque mi lista, la lista maestra titulada << Joder a Nick Dunne>>, era rigurosa, la lista más completa y minuciosa jamás creada.

She) could not only keep quiet, she could infuse the room with a mood of her choosing, like an octopus and its ink.