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Quotes About Control

Yes I was afraid sometimes, but not often. Mostly I was too busy. When you can do something about even the smallest part of it, the overwhelming sick horror goes. You stop seeing the whole thing and see only the tiny part you are dealing with, and the fact that you can do something calms you.
~ Anne Perry
He was afraid of the ultimate failure of being a coward. And that was something he could control. It might cost him everything he had, but it was still within his power to do it. It was within him, not beyond.
~ Anne Perry
One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!
~ Anne Rice
Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.
~ Anne Rice
You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?
~ Anne Rice
Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?
~ Anne Rice
Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.
~ Anne Rice
I touched the small sacred images. I shook my head and bit my lip, as if to say, How awful that he should have stolen these! But I also found it very funny. And further proof that God had no power over me.
~ Anne Rice
I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it? I'm the one really telling it, after all.
~ Anne Rice
The truth is, I hate not being the first person narrator all the way through! To paraphrase David Copperfield, I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it?
~ Anne Rice
Those who desire power want to be immune to the power of others.
~ Anne Rice
And so we remain immortal; we remain frightened; we remain anchored to what we can control. It all starts again; the wheel turns; we are the vampires; because there are no others; the new coven is formed.
~ Anne Rice
Most strange and wondrous, I thought, that the power of the mind was greater than the power of the hands.
~ Anne Rice
Come to me, and I shall be the sun round which you are locked in orbit, and my rays shall lay bare the secrets you keep from each other, and I, who possess charms and powers of which you have no inkling, shall control and possess and destroy you!
~ Anne Rice
Mary Beth considered the matter for a long time, and then explained in her simple straightforward manner that the future wasn't predetermined, it was merely predictable.
~ Anne Rice
One doesn't simply glut oneself on blood.
~ Anne Rice
Los pensamientos son imprecisos. Si te abro mi mente, no puedo controlar realmente lo que puedas leer en ella. Y, si soy yo quien lee en la tuya, es posible malinterprete lo que vea u oiga. Prefiero utilizar el lenguaje hablado y dejar que mis facultades mentales se expresen a traves de el....Para ser totalmente sincero, creo que el lenguaje es el mayor don que comparten mortales e inmortales.
~ Anne Rice
Five nights ago the Voice had said, "You of all understand me. You of all understand power, the desire for power, what is at the heart of the desire for power." "Which is what?" Rhosh had asked the Voice. "Simple," the Voice had replied. "Those who desire power want to be immune to the power of others.
~ Anne Rice
The only power that exists is inside ourselves…
~ Anne Rice
Those who desire power want to
~ Anne Rice
We seek power so as not to fall under anyone else's power
~ Anne Rice
Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice.
~ Anne Rice
Sometime in the far future there may be such a leader. He will reduce man to the nakedness and fear from which he came. And we shall feed upon him effortlessly as we have always done, and the Savage Garden, as you call it, will cover the world.
~ Anne Rice
If money can't buy you the freedom to do anything you want, well, what is the good of it?
~ Anne Rice