Quotes About Control

Possession is eleven points in the law.

All things obey fixed laws.

Where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.

You are in the driver's seat of your life and can point your life down any road you want to travel. You can go as fast or as slow as you want to go ... and you can change the road you're on at any time.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

Let them obey that know not how to rule.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Time is a tyranny to be abolished.

O, for an engine to keep back all clocks!

Live in day-tight compartments.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either; they keep you.

Time is the tyrant of the body.

Time is the king of men.

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.