Quotes About Control

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.

I absolutely love writing about the things that scare me, the things that keep me up at night. I don't quite know why. Perhaps because so many things do scare me, and this is my subconscious way of trying to exercise some control over things that go bump in the night!

Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they're going to marry, when they're going to die. It's strange to feel so omniscient.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

An America disarmed is an America in subjugation.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

I don't take a guy down just to hold him, I look for damage and submissions.

I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It's all about yielding. It's an oddly submissive relationship in which you're moulded, Pygmalion-style.

I don't conquer, I submit.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on our own journey.

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with.

The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations.

In future, migrants desiring to enter our State will need to be registered and their personal details and identification proof will have to be submitted to the police station.

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.