Quotes About Control

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.

Anger without power is folly.

Yielding to emotions such as anger or hurt or defensiveness will drive away the Holy Ghost.

When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.

Don't lose your temper; use it.

Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.

Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.

His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.

Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

Houllier couldn't deal with players expressing any anger or questioning any of his decisions

Anger is the ultimate troublemaker. I feel you can express a strong disapproval or dislike of an object without losing your temper.

You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I've thought, 'Why don't I just act on that impulse?' But then, I've never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I've never hit anybody for fun.

Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being.

The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already prepared. They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, prechewed, into your mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so.

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth.

An infinitely greedy sovereign is afoot in the universe, staking his claims.

There is, then, a politics of food that, like any politics, involves our freedom. We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources are controlled by someone else. . . . One reason to eat responsibly is to live free. ("The Pleasures of Eating," 1989)

The trouble was the familiar one: too much power, too little knowledge.

Whereas his father only ruled him, Aunt Molly owned him outright, at least when he was in the house where she could get at him.