Quotes About Control

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

She thinks your lady-love will rule you as the moon rules the tides.

It's like the craziest patient at the insane asylum running the place because he's the most "qualified."

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

...the devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot's dread of a newspaper that laughs.

In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad... Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time, no doubt. But at the present moment it really is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three... We are dominated by Journalism.

Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and helpless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed... So don't let this realization unsettle you. It is a milestone actually, a sign of real progress.

As much as I love my [d!@k] the universe does not dance to its whim. How is this hard for some guys to understand?

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

Parents know best how to push our buttons because they installed them.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Democrats think the glass is half full; Republicans think the glass is theirs.

Politics: "poli" (many) and "tics" (blood-sucking parasites).

The principle is that the qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. There is a simple democratic theory that the best man gets the office. In American thinking this is badly mixed up with the idea that some men "deserve" office, as if the right to control other men, to blast or benefit the future, were something that should be paid over as a reward for achievement in other fields or for virtue.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

Collis P. Huntington... maintained a rigid code of ethics of his own framing. It was, however, a code of power, currently described about as follows: "Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down."

I have a very firm grasp on reality — I can reach out and strangle it any time.

And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...

Be useful each day and take control of your own health. Laziness and apathy can settle into your spirit if you aren't paying attention.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will always get ahead. Edwin Markham said, "At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm." The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person.

If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

Flies spread disease — keep yours zipped.

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.