Quotes About Control

I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

Ash was the Master of Smoke.

It's really better if you let God take charge. I find that when I try to be in control, I lose control.

Knowing I was your property made me safe, made me make sense in his world. It was okay that I was a 'handful' because you had me under control. Malachi, you didn't even blink. You didn't have to think about it. You knew what would reassure him, and it was treating me like an unbroken horse.

She stood to lose far too much if she gave this little attraction any freedom to grow.

When you accept that life does not turn out the way it "should," you are free to take actions that are not constrained by the need to control life so it turns out the way that it "should" (or, at the very least, to make sure life doesn't turn out the way it "shouldn't").

Another way to approach thinking about your rackets is to ask yourself, "Where in my life am I chronically concerned with being right? Where am I chronically concerned with dominating? Where am I chronically concerned with remaining the way I am?

Your soul rages. You cannot control your spirits within your body, so you need this to force others to your will." The king stepped boldly toward Meklos, holding the dragonstaff in front of him, the Eye shining even in the dim light of the temple chamber. "You need this---this crutch to compel the great spirits, and they rebel against you, Meklos! They are fighting you and calling the gods' displeasure against you. Your life is diminished by the length of this rod!

Why Do we insist our lives are ours?

We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian.

KAREN: What do you want me to say? BARBARA: Tell him we got a sick woman here. VIOLET: You can't do this! This is my house! This is my house! BARBARA: You don't get it, do you? (With a burst of adrenaline, she strides to Violet, towers over her) I'M RUNNING THINGS NOW! (Blackout.)

Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, this is not easy.

You do control the thoughts that follow an emotion, and you have a great deal of say in how you react to an emotion—as long as you are aware of it.

Your mind is your nine

that sin is not the only possible cause of suffering has two practical implications. First, it "shatters the myth that our own righteousness can protect us from unjust suffering."[109] In other words, we cannot control the situations that might lead to our pain. Second, we cannot judge others based on the fact that they are suffering.

You're allowed to keep the lights on in your rooms as late as you wish until ten o'clock each night.

They're waiting at the barrier," Constance said as she and Kate left the control room. "Every one of them.

Whereas Napoleon I led and controlled throughout, Moltke brought his armies to their starting points and then abdicated his command and unleashed them.

How could she ever plan her future when there was always someone who would go out of her way to step in and try to plan it for her?

Children often get angry when they face situations they can't control.

If you were to lock me away in a white room in a straitjacket it would actually feel comforting as long as the walls were spotless and nobody wore shoes. - Allyson

there are unknown objects traversing our skies that seem to be under intelligent control.

You only live once, so enjoy life as it comes to you. Whether good or bad, accept each moment for what it is. Everything happens for a reason. You may not fully see the logics behind certain presently, but you will eventually. Focus on the things that you can control. Some things may not be a part of your plan, but it's a part of God's plan.