Quotes About Control

If we don't put our foot down, they will release every man and his dog.

I created you. Hence I have the right to do what I will with you. You have done me no harm, I admit. I make you suffer for my own pleasure.

Everything gets better with time; how much time is up to us. It's dependent on when we choose to change the stories we tell about our lives; when we decide to spend more time creating the life we want than lamenting the hand we've been dealt; and when we realize that no one's love, forgiveness, or acceptance can be as profoundly healing as our own. Maybe if I stopped trying to control how I hurt, I'd feel a pain that would teach me what I need to do to love life more and need pain less.

You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.

People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.

The fact is, race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident, real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counter productive. I grew up in a family that believed that you might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your reaction to them. There was no room for being a victim or depending on the white man to take care of you.

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

We are from a line of khans, brother. We rule wherever we are placed.

A man must always have the final choice in life and in death. Anything else can be taken from him, but never that.

You do not placate a tiger by feeding it your own flesh.

If you are asking if my family will take what they want, of course they will. The strong rule, Chen Yi. Those who are not strong dream of it.

You have a mighty army, but the greatest force is the one that you don't have to use.

Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?" she asked, tears shining in her eyes. "Power over you, little one," he said, smiling. "What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could.

My word is iron," Kublai said to the guards, as Meng Guang was led away. "Your people will come to know this, in time.

Predators did not need mercy.

My word is Iron

In the Senate they have as many power as we decide to grant them, do you understand it? If we don't allow them anything, then they have nothing. That which they call ''power'' is made of shadows

The nation of my father is too strong for a man who cannot command even his own body.

Just as the kids are afraid of the dark, so too are grown ups scared of power. It lures, but, also, consumes. It's a game that mustn't never be taken lightly.

We are soldiers, Highness. We understand tomorrow could be the last day. Or the day after. A soldier has so little control over the time or manner of his ending. He can always choose how he faces it.

There was no destiny in life, nothing beyond what a man could take and hold for himself.

A strong man could bend the sky to suit him, but only for himself, Temujin knew.

This is a hard land and the people are used to death. If I am to rule them, they must know that to face me is to be destroyed. They must be afraid, Chakahai. It is the only way.