Quotes About Control

when they give you a choice, it's a selection of handpicked possibilities they have prescreened. No matter what you decide, the core choice has already been made, and you weren't involved in it.

In a place where you're so freaked out that you hold yourself supertight, because any splash of emotion could break the dam and you would fall to pieces.

Sometimes, when the power of your enemy is too great, the only thing you can do is contain it.

I had many failings, and the overwhelming need to be in control of myself was one of them. I didn't care about controlling other people.

She had only two modes of operation: complete control or complete insanity.

Please relay a message to Ghastek for me, I said. Your way isn't working. Let me help. The vampire dutifully repeated the words. He says 'The situation is under control.' Tell him, no, it's not. You can't contain it now. What happens when the metamorphosis is complete? He says, 'Your concern is duly noted.' Argh. Asshole. The undead opened his mouth and paused as the navigator caught himself. Should I . . . ? No, another navigator told him. You shouldn't.

Wind mages. They're all fancy dancing until you drop something heavy on them.

People are ruled by their emotions, Conlan, and anger is one of the most powerful emotions we can experience. It can fester if you don't vent it. Always take that into account.

Power has a price. We don't always want it, but we always end up paying.

I strive to menace," I said.

I gave him my hard stare. "You're a control freak and I fight all authority. And you want us to mate?" A wicked spark lit his eyes. "Many, many times.

Woman wants control, man self-control .

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

purposes are imposed on nature violently and dictatorially, instead of being sought by means of physical investigation.

In the highly classified manual of dezinformatsiya that codified my life within the Soviet intelligence community, it was proclaimed on the first page, all in upper case letters: "IF YOU ARE GOOD AT DISINFORMATION, YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING.

El mundo está regido por leyes que no se han hecho ni para nosotros ni contra nosotros.

Paralyse and ultimately kill.

No one else can choose your attitude for you. Your perspective and choice of attitude gives you the power to be in control.

I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.

The exercise of power is a dangerous delight.

She stopped thinking so as not to cry

The exercise of power is a dangerous delight. The short path is the only path but it is very steep.

The police moved us on at about six a.m. This is the hour when, for some reason, one begins to be a menace to law and order.

I can decide what to say but not what the words mean which I have said. I can decide what to do but I am not master of the significance of my act.