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Quotes About Control

Stern men with empires in their brains.
~ James Russell Lowell
A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.
~ Joe E. Lewis
The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.
~ Joe Frazier
It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.
~ John Adams
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
~ John Dryden
A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.
~ John Foster
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
~ John Selden
A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
~ Jose Ferrer
The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.
~ Laura Bates
In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.
~ Rosanna Arquette
When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.
~ Russell Hoban
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.
~ T. S. Eliot
Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Cradles are the most powerful pinning combination known to man
~ Wade Schalles
Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.
~ Walther Rathenau
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
~ William Penn
Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.
~ William Shakespeare
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
~ Zhang Yimou
Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.
~ Zhuangzi
I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
~ Denis Kearney
Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.
~ Douglas Sirk