Quotes About Control

hydraulics accepted the weight.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and banded Which way please them.

We are merely the star's tennis balls, struck and banded Which way please them.

Religion is sin when it makes God into something which we can handle.

O that I were a man, or that I had power To execute my apprehended wishes! I would whip some with scorpions.

Princes give rewards with their own hands, But death or punishment by the hands of other.

Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.

Solo puedo controlar aquello de lo que soy consciente. Y aquello de lo que no soy consciente me controla a mí. La conciencia me capacita.

It was a strategy that disguised itself as love and concern, and thus one against which he was helpless.

You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.

Perhaps what should make you feel better is the thought I would kill you, that I'm obsessed with you enough to do that. I'd rather you not live than that you live apart from me.

Most people […] prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else

Does the man really command the sword?" I asked. "It appears that the sword may command the man.

apoplectic. I let them stew

Want to know the best part of being a warlord?' came a hoarse whisper. I bit my lip, puzzled by the question. Keir's mouth curled up slowly into a smile. 'I always get what I want.

It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms - me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile - and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving. And that I don't believe in God, but if I did, if I did, it would be the God of Moses, angry and demanding and OUT FOR REVENGE...

Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God

it never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms-- me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile-- and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving.

It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gently and harmlessly in your home, or it can be a full-fledged forest fire that destroy almost everything and is controlled by almost nothing. It can also be so much in-between

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.