Quotes About Control

I don't even own my own name on the internet - somebody else bought it.

I understand football through the ball. There are others who interpret the game without the ball.

The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering.

A writer can write an essay, but the writer can never control how that essay is interpreted by the reader.

Government intervention only hurts; it doesn't help.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

Get a grip. You're never going to win her over by pushing too hard. You tried that this afternoon and where did it get you? Nowhere fast. It was true and he knew it but still, it was hard to rein himself in when every cell in his body was demanding that he take her, that he bond her to him forever so that there was no chance of losing her. The

Mine, she's mine, the beast inside him raged. Have to have her. Have to make her mine now! Gripping

Please," she breathed again, afraid to move, afraid to do anything but beg. "Please, Sylvan, don't." With a low, frustrated growl, he pulled back. But the need in his eyes still burned just as brightly, his lust for her white-hot and unquenchable. "Need to mark you. Need to make you mine." His voice was the growl of a beast denied its prey. "But I won't. Not now." "Sylvan…

When I get finished with you, Lilenta, every male within a fifty mile radius will know you're mine." "So

He wasn't just fucking me anymore—he was breeding me. Claiming me as his own, marking me so that no other male would come anywhere near me. Corbin owned me now—he had stamped his mark on my heart as surely as he was marking my body. I was his… utterly and completely his.

Force is an ill broom to sweep anything clean with.

To trust any man is the road to slavery.

That always seemed like the whole thing; they'll let you have stories, but you can't ever think in a certain way. There are no spaces between the words, it's one of the charms of the place. Certain things don't have to be thought about carefully because you're always being pushed from behind. It's like a tunnel where there's no sky.

You know, when you come to think about it, it's a wonder women have anything to do with men at all, and no surprise that men have devised all kinds of schemes to bind women to them, like not giving them any money. If you had your choice of sleeping with a beautiful soft creature or a large hard one, which would you pick? I mean, if they both had the same amount of money?

I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could know them. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends.

I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends.

I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could know them. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends.

The members of the Massachusetts Court removed Anne because her moral certitude was too much like their own.

When you rigidly limit the amount of food you are allowed to eat, it usually sets you up to crave larger quantities of that very food.

The moment you banish a food, it paradoxically builds up a "craving life" of its own that gets stronger with each diet, and builds more momentum as the deprivation deepens.

Every diet violation, every eating situation that feels out of control lays the foundation for the "diet mentality," brick by brick and diet by diet.

and you dread eating the foods you love, because you're afraid it will be hard to stop.

Several studies have shown that the regulation of food intake has its foundation in early eating experiences. If as a child your parents took control over most of your eating without respecting your preferences or hunger levels, you easily got the message