Quotes About Control

Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others

Responsibility always exceeds authority

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

An act against my will is not my act.

Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to it

Right reason is stronger than force.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

The heart never takes the place of the head: But it can, and should, obey it.

The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?

We Germans have a history of sacrificing everything for one strong leader," her father had said. "It's our fear of chaos.

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

I am also thinking as I am rubbing the mud off my feets and then folding my arm up in my lap how it is strange that all of these men are always looking at this whole country on map and acting as if it is piece of meat they can just be dividing by cutting it with knife (83)

Other days when he has come from or doesn't want to go to a shift at work, he is wild, sucking away everything I thought I knew about the way I'm supposed to be in this world. I feel like a star caught in the gravitational pull of a black hole, unraveling, spinning under the control of some unseen force, torn into streams of fire forever spiraling, never to be put together again.

True enough, order prevails.... What prevails is order without life. True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

government that breaks its own laws can also easily break you.

The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.

One who moderates the senses, also the God of the regions of the dead.

China's ruling party, as firmly in control of the government as ever, attracts foreign companies and enormous direct investment by guaranteeing the stability of a police state and by supplying a docile workforce that labors with minimum rights, commonly for extended hours under severe discipline, and is housed in substandard conditions.

There was no trick or stunt that he couldn't accomplish with the greatest of ease; we had balancing stunts and all that jazz — nothing he couldn't do. He had absolute unerring control over his body.

The unspoken word we control. Once spoken, it controls us.

Lately, Nastoyna felt that she had no right to criticize anyone at all -- no man, no animal, no bird, because each lived his own life, which was not in his control and which he could not change.