Quotes About Control

El apocalipsis queda anulado. Hasta que yo lo diga.

Fear is a drug you need to survive. Without fear, you die quicker; that's part of basic, that's what the old guys instill in us when we're fledglings waiting and eager to fly; fear is your friend, but only in controlled doses, never in such flooding waves that you panic. Panic kills you quicker than bullets. Panic turns you into doomed animals.

Can the Flood choose to infect, or not to infect?

Occupation of vast reaches of space means nothing. It is control of population centers and essential resources that determines victory or defeat.

The big problem with omnipotence is that it leads so easily to overconfidence….

The price of abundance is restraint.

darkness turned to noon. Even with the nose cone of the Learjet pointed away from the blast, the flash blinded everyone inside. Diaz lost control of the aircraft. It pitched over into a screaming, spinning dive, hurtling earthward at over five hundred miles per hour. In the cabin, people slammed into each other in the terror of flashblindness. General Steyn screamed in pain. Hauer half-fell past Burton into the cockpit. "Straighten up!" he screamed.

When you write a book, you have total control of the universe and everyone in it.

Most had lived the first decade of their lives with big grins; too many had lived the remainder with a confused scowl and a diminishing sense of control over their futures.

The United States Air Force never really wanted GPS.

The First Order brought law to a lawless galaxy.

A real stormtrooper is the extension of the First Order, of Supreme Leader Snoke's will, nothing less.

The Force is with me, and I am one with the Force," Chirrut told Althin. "And I fear nothing, for all is as the Force wills it.

He could handle chaos in the world as long as there was order at home.

I'm an American, remember? I'm used to my government spying on me.

I think it worked like any abusive relationship . . . a person feels trapped, nowhere to go . . . they are abused and then the abuser reins them back in with kindness and the person being abused settles, not quite thinking about the next time they are beat etc. just relieved the abuse is over (for now).

It is always easier to sleep at night if the monsters outside your house only knock when you give them cause.

We were never anything more than something she could manipulate

Sometimes hitting the pause button on a life beginning to spiral out of control by moving to a new house can actually reset the situation and make things better.

Shelly wanted to control people. She loathed any scenario in which she wasn't the center square. It was like their family was a cult of some kind: Nikki had escaped first, then Sami. The world outside of Raymond was a more beautiful—and happy—place than Tori had ever thought possible.

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

The core problem seems to lie in the classical-philosophical equation of power with control, and thus omnipotence with omnicontrol, an equation that forces the problem of evil to be seen as a problem of God's sovereignty. If it is accepted that God is all-loving and all-powerful, and if maximum power is defined as maximum control, then by definition there seems to be no place for evil. If goodness controls all things, all things must me good.

History teaches that the best way to destroy the Church is to give it political power.

Decide had the same root as suicide and homicide. Decisions felt like little killings. Somebody lost.