Quotes About Control

I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU. THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELF OFF.

Chloe. She, Judy-Moody-not-Stink, was in charge of piles and piles of money and got to dish

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.

I'm terrified that if they know how much I hate it, they might take it away.

Power. What men like best for themselves and least in their women.

Your Majesty, what I am saying is that I have never seen him driven, and rarely led either. However, if you were to twist him around your finger and could conceivably grind him under your heel in the process, you have to know that I would be eternally grateful. I would die a happy man.

What he brought out was a wooden gag they put in someone's mouth before doing something drastic, like cutting off a leg.

I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own desire for power.

To make war you need three things: one, money; two, money; and three, money.

The Attolians liked to point out with a snicker that there was no sign anywhere of the king's hand at work.

Weak kings who lost their tempers were notoriously destructive.

Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner.

If I am a pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make up my mind for me. Eddis, The Queen of Attolia

He wants me to boss you around. We'll pick up a pair of stilettos on the way home, he said. I said, I need to go back to Philiadelphia.

It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living a fairy tale someone else wrote.

Sometimes it was better to keep Pandora's box closed.

I know you would never leave me. I know you would never be able to make a decision, so I decided for you. -Oliver

Even though you can't control the things that happen to you, you can control your perspective and your actions. There's never a moment you can't choose who you want to be.

We're all trapped. I'm as trapped as they are. The more Ben thought about it, the more he knew it was true. He hadn't chosen to be born a prince and become a king, just as they hadn't chosen who their parents were. They were prisoners for a crime they themselves had not committed. That was the greater crime, wasn't it? It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living in a fairy tale someone else wrote.

I live because I have to. You will hurt, you will bleed, you will be betrayed as I have been betrayed. You will survive. And you must learn to control your power.

Wearing a mask of obedience before royalty as they pulled the strings of the puppet monarchs.

I've never said it to his face, but sometimes he can be a little controlling. He tries to tell me what to wear, how to do my hair, that I'm too loud sometimes.

I loved her. And she didn't love me back. She wanted to break up with me. She tried to run. I couldn't let her leave. I grabbed her, and held her down, and she screamed, and she wouldn't stop screaming, and I had to make her quiet so she would listen. I loved her so much, and she wouldn't listen.