Quotes About Control

Law was always made by the few and in general for the purpose of preserving the existing order, or for the reestablishment of the old order and the punishment of the offenders against it.

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

I thought that love was a river, endless and deep. I thought it merely happened, washing over you like water. It was nothing to search for, nothing to force. I didn't understand that even when we can't control our fate, we alone have the last say in matters of the heart. We can give it freely, even in the worst of times, even when it isn't returned.

She truly believed that she carried her own fate in the palm of her hand, as if destiny was nothing more than a green marble or a robin's egg, a trinket any silly girl could scoop up and keep. She believed that all you wanted, you would eventually receive, and that fate was a force which worked with you, not against you.

even though she felt a wave of dread. If they knew she was nervous, she'd be at their mercy. But if they thought she was ice they'd be afraid to touch her.

Do you ever get the feeling that your life isn't really your own, and you've just sort of let things happen to you?

All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.

He could burn her up alive; he could do it in a minute flat, and that's not easy to forget.

The craft was dangerous and unpredictable, and witches were difficult to control, for they had minds of their own and didn't hold to keeping to the law.

Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.

He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs

We make our own fate," Jet said, and then all at once she realized that they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.

We make our own fate. And then all at once she realized they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.

he wants to be completely in control. In a way, it's a relief. ...[she] doesn't have to think when she's with him, or make a decision, or state a preference.

Love is not always under our control

He felt like an addict, out of control, unable to stop himself from taking what he imagined he was entitled to, not yet understanding that no one is entitled to anything other than his freedom and the choices he makes.

Maria was a weather witch and could stop rain by standing in a downpour with her arms uplifted.

We all burn for what is bad for us...burn him in return. Maybe then the bastard won't have such a hold over you.

For although Hailey thought nothing of leaping from the highest diving platform or swimming so far out to sea that she disappeared from sight, she was easily frightened by other things - a future she couldn't control, for instance, or the notion that a lifelong friendship might be lost at the end of the week when the Capri closed down for good and Claire moved away.

There were sinister aspects of magic, and what you brought into this world was your responsibility, to deal with forevermore.

Quando você quer alguém, essa pessoa tem poder sobre você.

When you chain something up, you turn him into something he shouldn't be.

Kill something, and it's yours forever.