Quotes About Control

good and loving God who is in control

She didn't like seeing that look in his face, but she wanted to see it there, she did. He was a man, wasn't he? And sometimes men had to learn what it was to be afraid of a woman.

there's no sense worrying about what you can't control. Doing that is a good way to go crazy.

But it was the first time I had ever really used the place I knew and the things I felt in a piece of fiction, and there was a kind of dreadful exhiliration in seeing things that had troubled me for years come out in a new form, a form over which I had imposed control.

A man's mouth gets him in more trouble than his pecker ever could, most of the time.

His words faded, because here were the switches Dan was looking for. The special switches, the ones with the red handles ... Shine on, he thought, and pulled them all.

Come back here, kid! I'll blow you for free. Come back here!

God doesn't have a plan, He throws pickup sticks.

We had once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

He had no psychic powers, but there was one power he did have: he was the grownup. The adult.

I must accept those things over which I have no control. I must turn my adversities into advantages.

Chains (other than the ones we all learned to make out of strips of colored paper in kindergarten I suppose) are strong. We use them to pull engine blocks out of trucks and to bind the arms and legs of dangerous prisoners.

George Orwell knew when he wrote 1984: if you say a thing often enough, it will be accepted as truth.

All your fancy ideas come down to one thing - you want to kill her by remote control , you don't want her blood on your hands. You're like a man who loves nothing better than a thick steak but wouldn't last an hour in a slaughterhouse. But listen , Paulie , and get it straight: you must face reality at this point in your life if at no other. Nothing fancy. No curlicues. Right? Right.

If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. [It is] the dubious luxury of normal men and women.

Anger made men easy.

She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face.

because he had such an ingrained and perhaps exaggerated faith in democracy, he did nothing to repress it.

We used to be the fucker," one of Anaconda's lawyers lamented. "Now we're the fuckee.

With his manifold instruments of personal power, he was mercilessly hounding all those who expressed differences of opinion with him, but he was always the victim.

He deemed the Georgian "an insincere, masked dictator who plays with people.

Trotsky cut in: "'Collective leadership' is precisely when everyone hinders each other or everyone attacks each other.' (Laughter).

Hypersecrecy became an unquenchable thirst that strengthened Stalin's grip. Out of the business directorate he and his functionaries carved out a separate entity named the "secret department," which took charge of denunciations and investigations, the party archives, and the contacts with the secret police.

Even Stalin's absolute power did not delight him absolutely. He exulted in it, yet it roused his self-pity.