Quotes About Control

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

I love someone who tries to boss me around.

I wonder what the difference between love and control is, but I'm afraid to look those words up in a dictionary.

Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.

Love is a kind of possession. It's a poison.

But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.

Love is a tempestuous mistress. And none of us shall ever master her.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

and we might as well give up, because Standard Oil owns everything. He said they own Standard Brands, which in turn own Safeway Stores, which in turn own Pacific Fruit and Produce, which in turn has mortgages on all the farms. He says they are responsible for all the wars and that we are all just slaves being allowed to exist until the time comes when we can go into the trenches to protect Standard Oil.

Plott's every touch, whether he was beating her or caressing her, was a form of brutalizing manipulation.

control and to keep your hands to yourself. There are all kinds of teachers in the world just as there are all kinds of other people, and you must learn to get along with them. Maybe Mrs. Griggs doesn't understand how you feel, but you aren't always easy to understand. Did you ever think of that?

The abusive partner continually denies any responsibility for problems.

Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own. Many will remain dependent on their abusive parents and unable to separate from them. Others leave their abusive parents only to attach themselves to a partner who is controlling.

We are the only creature that can harm at a distance.

Resuming installation process. Do not ever try anything like that again. Remember: we know that you spent a whole afternoon on March 10 watching Paris Hilton home videos. We'll tell your wife. We're Microsoft. Don't fuck with us. Download will be complete in 14 hours.

Food was similarly regulated, with restrictions placed on how many courses one might eat, depending on status.

By 1927, the average state was spending eight times more on enforcing fish and game laws than it spent on Prohibition.

Guinea worms grow up to a meter long inside the bodies of their victims, then escape by burrowing out of their skin. The only treatment, even now, is to speed the process of exit by winding the worms onto a stick as they emerge.

At one time he personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States.

If there is nothing else to learn from history, it's that from humans to animals, from the most primitive to the most civilized, most individuals want to be led. Take out the leader, and the rest of the pack panics.

My questioner is not the least bit deterred by the insults I've hurled. He is undoubtedly encouraged by the fact that his questions have now firmly found their place under my skin. He is looking at his notes again, at his flowchart of questions and follow-ups, while I try to calm myself.

Take out the leader, and the rest of the pack panics.

Our job is to live as well and as long as we can, and to help others to do the same. What happens after that and how we are viewed by others is beyond our control.

I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!