Quotes About Control

Healing is a different type of pain. It's the pain of becoming aware of the power of one's strength and weakness, of one's capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

It is a great disadvantage to spend one's time worrying about what may go wrong. When things do go wrong, one would think that worry would've prepared one in some way. This is not the case. Instead, the senseless disorder of one's thoughts grows more and more uncontrollable as one rehearses the events that befell, to no good effect since nothing can undo the damage, no amount of muddled thinking can ever result in any other outcome.

Marie Antoinette] went to great lengths to underscore the notion that the realm of Trianon was ruled by her and her alone.

Even as she faced execution, Marie Antoinette's will to control her image, to manage it through her clothing, had not left her.

A true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise she's giving away her power and her crown.

even the idyllic garden of Eden was a war zone. The command to rule and subdue put God's image bearers on high alert that fierce resistance lay ahead.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Sure, he'd kill, she didn't doubt that, but she got the impression he'd rather leave you maimed someplace so you could die nice and slow. While he watched and took detailed notes so he'd do better the next time.

I need to acknowledge that she may have controlled my past, but she doesn't have to dominate my present and my future, too

Remember that it is I who have raised you from nothing, and it is I who at any time can lower you to where you were.

I love making up stories. I love getting lost in other worlds and being with other characters. I love the way I think I'm in control and then the characters and stories take on a life of their own. I love how I can incorporate my own faith into the stories I write. Writing is both discovery and creating and with each book I do that. Discover and create. It can be an adventure some days, a nightmare others. I also like that I can do this wearing ugly clothes.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

I'm frightened of the power I have given him over me and of how he will almost certainly abuse it, merely by not being fully aware he has it.

The world was his shower and he used women for soap.

There are a couple of reasons why I take comfort in being able to put all this in my own vernacular and present it to you. For one thing, because then I'm not completely alone with it. And for another, it gives me a sense of being in control of the craziness. Now this is a delusion, but it's MY delusion and I'm sticking with it. It's sort of like: I have problems but problems don't have me.

There is no easy off button for your brain.It would be really really nice if there were.

I hang up. Actually, I smash the phone down because I take my anger out on inanimate objects. Which is better than taking it out on people, right?

There needs to be a turn-off button for noses. This is too much.

It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

Jesus, take the wheel Take it from my hands 'Cause I can't do this on my own I'm letting go So give me one more chance To save me from this road I'm on Jesus, take the wheel

Jesus take the wheel

Jesus take the wheel Take it from my hands Cause I can't do this on my own I'm letting go So give me one more chance Save me from this road I'm on Jesus take the wheel

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

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.