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  1. Libba Bray _ The Sweet Far Thing

    You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty.""If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?""Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life.
    book-quoteloveliferesponsibility

  2. Jack Weatherford _ Genghis Khan and the Making of

    The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.
    book-quotecontrolleadershippride

  3. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    ,' Dad said, 'has the sort of ellipsis ending most American audiences would rather undergo a root canal than be left with, not only because they loathe anything left to the imagination-we're talking about the country that invented spandex-but also because they are a confident, self-assured nation. They Family. They Right from Wrong. They know God-many of them attest to daily chats with the man. And the idea that none of us can truly know anything at all-not the lives of our friends or family, not even ourselves-is a thought they'd rather be shot in the arm with their own semi-automatic rifle than face head-on. Personally, I think there's something terrific about not knowing, relinquishing man's feeble attempt to control. When you throw up your hands, say, "Who knows?" you can get on with the sheer gift of being alive."
    book-quotefamilygodcontrol

  4. Jeanne DuPrau _ The City of Ember

    The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is.
    book-quotecontrol

  5. Patrick Süskind _ Perfume: The Story of a

    He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but super human, an angels scent, so indescribably good and vital that who ever smelt it would be enchanted and with his whole heart would have to love him.
    book-quotelovepowercontrol

  6. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.
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  7. Frank Herbert _ Dune Messiah

    What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death.
    book-quotecontrollawserenity

  8. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    From this day forward, I vowedto myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, notGod, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, ordominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, totake what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself.
    book-quotelifecontrolfate

  9. Dan Brown _ The Lost Symbol

    The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world:
    book-quotecontroltattooflesh

  10. Gillian Flynn _ Gone Girl

    I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.
    book-quotetruthemotionscontrol

  11. Gillian Flynn _ Gone Girl

    I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got to know her. And she wasn't perfect. You know? She was brilliant and charming and all that, but she was also controlling and OCD and a drama queen and a bit of a liar. Which was fine by me. It just wasn't fine by her. She got rid of me because I knew she wasn't perfect.
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  12. Noam Chomsky _ The Common Good

    The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum...."
    book-quotelimitcontrolobedience
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