Quotes About Control

The only reason you're still conscious is because I don't want to carry your body.

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.

Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.

The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.

I hate foreplay, I want to get straight to the point. My favourite position is on top so I can take control.

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.

Marry me. You can have all the money and credit cards you want, and the glory of being Mrs Packer, but you've got to let me do what I want.

I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode.

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's impractical, it's stupid and it's exactly what they want me to do.

We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.

I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.

There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.

You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.

Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs to be done.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.