Quotes About Control

That is one definition of the setting-sun mentality: trying to conquer the earth so that you can ward off reality

Even an empire cannot control the long-term effects of its policies. That is the essence of blowback.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?

And we know that the period during which the influence of Christian theism was strongest, was the period when the intellectual life of civilised man was at its lowest, morality at its weakest, and the general outlook most hopeless. Religious control gave us heresy hunts, and Jew hunts, burnings for witchcraft, and magic in the place of medicine. It gave us the Inquisition and the auto da fé, the fires of Smithfield and the night of St. Bartholomew.

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

Wherever you go online, the Big Computer knows what you want before you want it. It's ready for you and waits patiently, humming. It knows where you will be tomorrow and what you will be doing, and it carefully calibrates the shame you carry with you in hopes that you will buy something to restore your peace of mind.

but kept their eyes straight ahead. The Gestapo captain

If you thought about it you'd realize that you don't have control over everything, but you control how you react

It's important to keep in mind that you have control over your year, If you don't like the direction your life is going—then you have the power to change it. If you're not happy where you're at, figure out where you want to be and make it happen.

Jimmy liked to control his environment. He didn't drink, so no one took a drink in his presence. He didn't smoke, so nobody lit up around him. Sometimes he'd get all riled up. He'd get impatient and he'd do things that would remind you of a kid scratching chicken pox. You couldn't tell him he was going to end up with pockmarks. You couldn't say a word. You just listened. Jimmy

they were by secret ballot, so the cabbies could sign just to get rid of you and then vote whichever way they wanted to, and you couldn't do anything about it. I

Russell Bufalino's penetrating good eye stayed on mine. I moved back up in my seat. I couldn't show anything in my face. I couldn't say a word. That's not the way it works. The wrong look in my eyes and my house gets painted. Jimmy

Ten days after Hoffa took the oath of office in 1957, the AFL-CIO kicked out the Teamsters, saying that they could get back in only if they got rid of "this corrupt control" of the union by Jimmy Hoffa and his racketeer union officials. On

Bobby Kennedy called Jimmy Hoffa "the most powerful man in the country next to the president." Part

Dost thou wish me to complete the catalogue by thy death? Thy life is a worthless thing. Tempt me no more. I am but a man, and thy presence may awaken a fury which may spurn my control. Begone!

Where is the proof, said I, that daemons may not be subjected to the control of men? This truth may be distorted and debased in the minds of the ignorant. The dogmas of the vulgar, with regard to this subject, are glaringly absurd; but though these may justly be neglected by the wise, we are scarcely justified in totally rejecting the possibility that man may obtain supernatural aid.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

A Christian of longer standing may not be spiritual, not because he has had insufficient time but because during the years of his Christian life he has not allowed the Holy Spirit to control him.

To be filled with the Spirit means to be controlled by

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

For whatever you bind on earth is bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven. (Matt. 16:19.)

Power is like salt water; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.