Quotes About Control

Stephen was holding his glass of tea so tightly it squeezed out the bottom of his grip like toothpaste and landed on the table.

Brendan wanted to chain the guy to the bumper of a truck and drive down the thruway for a hundred miles.

The journey of life is the unification of fragmentation. Fragments are units of power that are out of control. We make agreements to come and collect ourselves.

The most effective way to break the controlling force of a myth is to recognize that you personally believe it, and that while you may share this belief with others, it is a belief and not necessarily a fact.

We all have to surrender our need for our world to be ordered according to our conceptions of justice, logic, and rational motives. Just as you must have realized by now that your world does not, in fact, revolve around you—that you have very little authority over your life and that even making it alive until sundown is not in your hands—you must reach the stage of spiritual maturity where you surrender to God.

We are so deluded. We are in control of nothing whatsoever; not the weather, not the government, not the stock market, not traffic, barely our health and relationships, not the millions of decisions being made by people all over the world every second—all of which influence our lives in both unseen and all-too-apparent ways. We

Guess you can take the teacher out of the classroom, but you can't take the bossy out of the teacher.

Momma always said that a true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise, she's giving away her power and her crown.

And if I'm in control, then no one can hurt me.

Momma always said that a true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise, she's giving away her power and her crown. My

still got power over you, even in death, if he can agitate you this much

Honest autoethnographic exploration generates a lot of fears and self-doubt and emotional pain. Just when you think you can't stand the pain anymore that's when the real work begins. Then there is the vulnerability of revealing yourself, not being able to take back what you 've written or having any control over how readers interpret your story.

Stifling our emotions is like marking return to sender on God's good gift.

Had to stay human. Wolf couldn't drive the freaking car. Or hold the gun.

I always told my callers, you can choose. You can decide what to do. Don't blame your homicidal urges or basic assholeness on being a monster, because you can choose. God help me. God, help me.

He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push.

But underneath the action, it asks a question just as tough: Is it ever right to "out" someone, to take away their control of what the world knows of them?

Ruling was more difficult than wanting...

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.

Without attempting any systematic employment of time, and carrying it out, so far as they control circumstances, most women are rather driven along by the daily occurrence of life; so that, instead of being the intelligent regulators of their own time, they are the mere sport of circumstances.

Not even the Superintendent could play about with gravity.

You don't like possessive people then?' 'It isn't that I don't like them, I cannot understand what motivates them, unless it is an inadequacy in themselves, some deep want, and in order to alleviate it in some way, they hang on to another human being. It's a sort of desire for power. Those who run businesses are possessed in a similar way. They have power over people; and very often, on their whims depends a man's livelihood.

It's not the magic that has to be strong enough, but the person who's wielding it.