Quotes About Control

Who chooses the schedules we keep? We do, I guess.

I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it. I

when things are out of our hands, that doesn't mean they're not in God's.

shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it.

It's an odd thing when your children start telling you what to do." "I

Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships.

Anger and blame are powerful weapons. The opposition knows that.

Every decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you're the one in charge

The appointment book reinforces my new awareness of this. We plan our days, but we don't control them.

What can't be understood and neatly sewn up must simply be let go, not in the way of giving up, but in the way of understanding who is really in control of it.

Mama has always been in charge of the world, and she's determined not to abdicate now.

It's like, if you walked along the shore here and had it in your mind exactly what each wave was supposed to leave behind, instead of being surprised by what does turn up, you'd be upset that it wasn't like you planned. What's supposed to be a beautiful mystery would just be a constant disappointment. That's the way I look at it. Life is a beautiful mystery. Somebody else is in charge of the ocean. You don't get to make a list of what it should bring.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

Yet despite the threats from states – including in Hungary – they remain the only institutions that can guarantee universities' autonomy. The key is in the hand of the state. It can turn it on, it can turn it off.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

all gods were like that: the knife behind the smile, the drop of poison in the honey jar. They liked to bind you to them, make you dance on razorblades.

cheap, thin ale selling at the controlled price of a halfpenny a gallon should be kept separate from thicker, more expensive ale selling at twice that price. This embargo may not have been strictly observed.

We've been down the road of your hasty exits too many times, Mrs. Danvers. You married your master, and you married a sadist--of your own free will. You might remember that when you're tempted to walk out in a huff, defy my orders, and behave like a selfish brat. You got that?

A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Stubbornness and an obstinate disobedience must be mastered with blows.

Life is what you make it. Unless some guy finds you with his girl. Then the ball's pretty much in his court.

You're gonna sit down. You're gonna shut up. And by the grace of God Almighty, I ain't gonna kill you.

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.