“Maybe it s because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.”
“Here’s a simple test to check and see if you have surrendered or if you are still struggling with control. When you are miserable, stressed, doubtful, and fearful, you are in control. When you are happy, peaceful, confident, and faithful, God is in control.”
“Happiness is gleaned from a source, which can be attributed to all experiences; it can be found wherever the individual does not mind forfeiting the option, for some sense of control.”
“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s hard to unlearn such hierarchy, to undo such control. It’s implicit.”
“You know where I’m going to be, and you’ll know where I’ve been every step of my way to get there. You’ve made a hobby out of taking things away from me… a lot of them I never even knew to miss, but I know now. I know what you just took, and there’s no way you’re taking anything else from me. It’s time for me to start taking from you,” Wednesday said with a confidence in her voice that even she noticed and was proud to hear. “I thought you said you weren’t running from me anymore,” Klein said with a laugh in his voice. Her face was red, and she felt like she was on fire. She managed, summoning all her will, to keep herself from screaming and instead, keep an even and icy voice. “I’m not, you piece of shit. Now, I’m running at you.”
“The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.”
“Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness.”
“All identification is for control and ownership.”
“Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.”
“My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.”
“I suppose...my experience with organized faith of any stripe is somewhat stilted, Baisyl admitted. As far as my eyes have seen, it s a conglomeration of power-hungry men who self-appoint themselves the sole dictators of how others should live their lives in order to best please forces far beyond their control..”
“We are born with the need for a leader, someone to control the conflict between each individual s need. An alpha in the house, an alpha at work, an alpha in the church and in the White House.”
“There lies a faith in the absence of control.”
“Possession and loving are concepts that damn each other.”
“If there was no woman in this world there would be no prophecy ”
“If the answer of your question is the question of your answer be Nacre”
“I Know,But No One Know,No One Know So I Don t Know”