Quotes About Control

I really wanted to punish humanity, but I realized that I was playing God, and that didn't work.

Messages we get about menopause more often tell us we must keep ourselves from much of what we want and need in this time. It's easy to get the idea that life in and after menopause is going to be little, dreary rituals of desperate maintenance and exacting control over food, exercise, the shape and size of our bodies, our skin, our intimate relationships, our sexuality, our leisure, our moods, robbing us of what pleasure we might have found in these things before.

BUT ALTHOUGH he was paying for her whole life, McMahon still wasn't sure whether he truly possessed her. To make certain that he did, he tried to make Rose miserable. This was the only real proof that a woman belonged to you. Anybody could make a girl happy. It was only when a girl was in love with a man that he could ruin her self-esteem. He knew he would have to get around to that. He only had her for now.

Every family is a cruel, intransigent monarchy.

Violence never gives you a specific feeling that it's time to knock it off. That's because it is impossible to satisfy.

Board games were invented to keep people from thinking so they won't plan a revolution.

God knows who we became when we masturbated. It was like our desire was a spirit that possessed us and took over.

God, I'm not satisfied. I cannot live ankle-, knee-, or waist-deep. I must be completely immersed in Your presence. Lord, here I am. Immerse me. I do not want to keep from drowning. I want to drown in Your love. I want to know what it is to be immersed and undone. I want to know what it is to be out of control and for You to be totally and completely in control. Lord, come like a rushing river. I invite You to sweep me away to deeper places.

bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ

Out of seeming chaos, God manages to bring order. Sometimes it's hard to see the plan when we are running around, responding to circumstances. But He knows. He has the bigger picture. He is in control. And as we offer up the little we have, He multiplies it into something amazing.

majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips.

Torheit, du regierst die Welt, und dein Sitz ist ein schöner weiblicher Mund!

Verflucht das Herz, das sich nicht mäß'gen kann!

Maybe there are just some men like that in the world, I thought. Men who have to be in charge, who have to punish those who awaken feelings in them which they cannot control. Men who will lure you with tenderness till you believe that you are safe then slap you down. Men whom it is impossible for anyone to love without losing their dignity. Men who have to damage those who love them most. But, then, I had fallen on love with one, so what did that make me?

Why does turning on a TV these days require three remotes with ninety buttons? Why?

Sé cuál es su secreto: ha descubierto el poder. Así que todo lo que tengo que hacer yo es encontrar a alguien o algo sobre lo que tener poder y entonces... oh. Dios. Ni siquiera tengo poder sobre mi propio pelo.

One has to be in control, otherwise the whole dynamic becomes a total disaster.

What is more exhilarating than to make your staunch little boat, obedient to your will and muscle, go skimming lightly over glistening, tilting waves, and to feel the steady, imperious surge of the water!

In the world of book writing, an author really gets to have control over what he or she writes, which is why it is very satisfying. With the help of a great compatible editor, you really have something in the end you can call your own.

Personally, I don't have a Twitter account. I like to be in control of the way the stand up of Stewart Lee is perceived, I don't want to have to engage with individual people. Also, when I do look at it, loads of factually inaccurate things about me are written.

I think we should talk about what the objectives of the party are, whether that's restoring the Clause Four as it was originally written or it's a different one, but I think we shouldn't shy away from public participation, public investment in industry, and public control of the railways.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.