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Quotes About Control

Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.
~ Raheel Farooq
However, an artist is limited only by his own skill and imagination. He's in total control of his art. Whereas nature is the artist here, and I merely try to interpret and manage her design.
~ Crit Kincaid, A Wounded World
The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.
~ Dada Bhagwan
The massive spread of corporate controlled humans across the face of the Earth would be regarded as a parasitic growth by nature.
~ Steven Magee
In a natural environment, nature controls the breeding cycles. In the man-made environment, abnormal environmental conditions control the unnatural breeding cycles.
~ Steven Magee
717! You are behaving like a demented bluebottle - stop that!
~ Laline Paull, The Bees
In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature.
~ C.G. Jung
You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Action is within your control, while Emotion is beyond your control!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Emotion has its place, but it must not interfere with taking the appropriate action.
~ Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim
When forces of nature are involved, fate gets all the blame.
~ Maxine Clair, October Suite
Anything that can be controlled is Action not emotion!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Man will destroy what man fears!
~ Nadina Boun
If a man couldn't control his beast, it could turn so violent that nothing could restrain it once enraged.
~ Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger
One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.
~ Douglas Tallamy
Nature with equal mind sees all her sons at play sees man control the wind the wind sweep man away.
~ Matthew Arnold
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
~ Abdolkarim Soroush
You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Watch it, ' her mom snapped. 'Don't start a fight just because it's the easiest thing to do.
~ John Corey Whaley
The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children.
~ Kelly Bartlett
Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what's bothering you without losing control of your emotions.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
A man that can master patience can master anything.
~ Big Sean