Quotes About Control

Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

A mad world, my masters.

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

The tongue is not the sea but it can drown you.

Addiction has a more powerful pull than just about anything else on earth.

Addiction is an anchor that won't break out.

Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life.

they tremble and hide under the table when a local branch of ADL calls them 'anti-Semites'. Like the label of 'witch' in Salem, this word triggers a spasm wave in the target population.

Od svega što ima i jeste,ja sam hteo da napravim sredstvo kojim bih savladao i osvojio svet, a sada je taj svet od mene na?inio svoje sredstvo.

Kaže se, raja se odmetnula, raja je neposlušna i nevaljala. Jeste. Ali treba znati da raja ne diše svojom dušom, nego sluša dah gospodara. To vi dobro znate. Uvijek se gospoda prvo iskvare, a raja samo prihvati. A kad se jednom raja otme i pohasi, idi slobodno pa traži drugu, jer od te nema više ništa.

gospodstvo je kao veliki vjetar; kre?e se, kida i osipa.

What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.