Quotes About Control

When the accoutrements of custom disappear, they may be replaced by a sense of abandonment, of being adrift in unchartered waters. Our children lack a sense of history and belonging—of an anchored presence in the world. To establish a sense of control and comforting familiarity in an alienating society, the individual may resort to a wide range of pathological behavior—substance addiction, eating disorders, criminal behaviors, and so on.

Raging Bull Criterion 8. Inappropriate, intense anger, or lack of control of anger, e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights. Along with affective

The more the other party thinks he's having his way, the easier always to get your own.

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

Parliament may as well close down if a few men between them are to be allowed to own the entire Press of the country, and stifle every voice that does not shout their bidding.

You get yourself born, says the German Government to the German citizen, we do the rest. Indoors and out of doors, in sickness and in health, in pleasure and in work, we will tell you what to do, and we will see to it that you do it. Don't you worry yourself about anything. And the German doesn't.

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He could walk away from his hand-shake arrangement with Vivendi anytime he found Messier and his colleagues too intrusive, too overbearing, or at odds with his own agenda.

GOVERNMENT BIG ENOUGH TO SUPPLY EVERYTHING YOU NEED IS BIG ENOUGH TO TAKE EVERYTHING YOU

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

Getting drunk is, uh...getting drunk, you're in complete control...up to a point. It's your choice,every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like...I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation.

The moment people move off land which has directly supported them, the necessities of life are removed from individual control. The things people could formerly produce for their survival must now be paid for.

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

His nostrils flared, he was breathing like a picadored bull.

We know our lives are chaotic, but we insist that everything happen in an orderly way and be logically conceived.

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness?

Fire, they said, is no natural friend to man. That is why one must humor it.

like him, they preferred their lives delivered to them in a box.

I asked you where you're from," the leader repeated. "Cuz if you were from around here, you'd know these are our woods. No one comes or goes without paying a price. You've heard of Satan, haven't you?

I think he came to believe it was better to choose your life, and that even choosing your death was better than letting someone else choose your life.

And it's a life with no shortage of moments to recommend it, a life that picks up speed like a boulder rolling down a hill, easy and natural and comfortable, and yet beyond control somehow; it all happens so fast, you wake a young man and at lunch are middle-aged and by dinner you can imagine your death.

I won't pretend that I didn't like the voice, the power that changing horoscopes gave me.

This is what happens when your life is authored not by God, but by David Mamet.

First and foremost, I think we must remain calm as parents and try not to lose control of ourselves. For how can we expect our kids to control themselves if we can't do it? That seems unfair.