Quotes About Control

Sometimes it scares me how easy it is to get people to do what you want them to do, if you know something about them.

Maybe the process of becoming something horrible wasn't about temptation to sin, forbidden delights, and bad impulse control. Maybe it was about choosing to throw your soul into a meat grinder, over and over again. Until what remained couldn't even be seen as a soul any longer. Maybe the real monsters, the big bad monsters, aren't created. They're forged. Hammered. One blow at a time.

Her fate was, she realized, entirely in the hands of another person. Captain

Aurora turned her lovely face fully toward me and regarded me with deep, quiet eyes. "Yes." Unease gnawed at my belly as she continued. "The strong conquer and the weak are conquered. That is Winter. That is what you have learned." She leaned closer and said, quietly emphatic, "That is what makes you dangerous. Do you see?

The difficult task is to marry relentless discipline with creativity, neither letting discipline inhibit creativity nor letting creativity erode discipline.

Life is a food chain, and it's better to be the diner than the dinner.

I order to be in charge, you need someone to be in charge of.

The risk of relying too much on trying to control children from the outside in, is that this often causes rebellion from the inside out.

says people of all ages compare the amount of control they have in a relationship to only the amount of control they used to have—not to the amount they feel they should have. When more control is allotted with time, people are satisfied; when control is cut back, people are angry.

The state of our kids' room is a control battle we can win. But making an issue of it doesn't mean yelling at them. It means offering choices

kids will throw tantrums only as long as they work. Kids never seem to scream and pound the floor when they're alone in their room, but the show goes on when they have a captive audience.

God is in control of all events and is able to protect and provide for you His child.

The knowledge that God is in control should give you confidence for the future.

God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.

How much l wanted to take scalps, but it was not my kill. - Legends of the Fall

What has been touted by government officials as a means to protect us has slowly been transformed into a surveillance state being used to protect the government and the people who control it from any public rebellion.

Genetic engineering and such products as Monsanto's "Terminator" seeds, which cannot reproduce, could conceivably give that company proprietary control over the food crops. Glyphosate-based

Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.

Drugs are a bet with your mind." "It's like gambling, somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where you're going to end up the next day. It could work out good, or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. I can I am

Once you make peace with authority you become an authority

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.

Or society places a supreme value on control -- hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks primitive cultures and prides itself on supression of natural instincts and impulses.

The media controls the mind.