Quotes About Control

As civilization speeds toward its final destiny, the appearance of a powerful world ruler is inevitable.

Government-imposed loan standards precipitated a banking crisis, which was solved by a government bailout and control of the banks. As a result, little by little, fewer and fewer are making more and more banking decisions. Government

As the rudder controls a ship, so the tongue controls a person.

are attempts to regain some of the control I felt I lost when my mother died.

Imagine the thoughts in your mind as being like a garden. Whatever thoughts you water are the thoughts that will grow. When you have a horrible image in your mind, if you keep looking at it and telling yourself that you can't stop, that image will become stronger and stronger.

emotional manipulators rely on their victims having a better functioning conscience than the manipulators themselves!

I have become very good at clearing histories.

Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.

In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.

I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that sins of the flesh is just a control mechanism -- if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

There comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the body's urges, the body's needs, dictate the life. You have no idea you are giving the body the key. But you hand it over. And then it's in control. You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge.

Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words.

Sometimes you make plans. Sometimes plans make themselves.

It's up to you, not fate.

Without you I wouldn't have been able to contain the hate. I would have used it against myself. You're the one who helped me control it. My mind spun out to other things. But it always came back to you.

But I guess the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead.

hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

If you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life.

Infinity is against us, I told him. There's no way for us ever to count it or control it or understand it.

I love a man who doesn't let go of the leash, even when it leads him to ruin.

It's so natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is. -Rhiannon

you were never worthy if her. she knew so much more than you did. so you had to destroy her. you think you saved her. but you destroyed her.

I would have always been the captain. But now you're in charge.

when people say right person, wrong time, or wrong person, right time, it's usually a cop-out. They think that fate is playing with them. That we're all just participants in this romantic reality show that God gets a kick out of watching. But the universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.