Quotes About Control

Personally, I love lists. They're very soothing. You usually write them slowly, so they're tidy-looking even if you don't have good handwriting. They also give you a sense of reassurance that you really do know what you're doing, and they incite the pleasant delusion that Things Are Under Control. Unfortunately, once I've written a list, I find that I don't want to do anything on it.17

But I remember talking with Mr. Garrick once in London, and his reference to the playwright as a little god who directs the actions of his creations, exerting absolute control upon them. Mrs. Cowley argued with this, saying that it is delusion to assume that the creator controls his creations and that an attempt to exert such control while ignoring the true nature of those creations is doomed to failure.

I was at once exhausted and jittery, with that horrible battlefield feeling, of being in the midst of events beyond my ability to control, but which must be dealt with anyway.

Love for a child cannot be free; from the first signs of movement in the womb, a devotion springs up as powerful as it is mindless, irresistible as the process of birth itself. But powerful as it is, it is a love always of control; one is in charge, the protector, the watcher, the guardian—there is great passion in it, to be sure, but never abandon. Always, always, I had had to

The sacrifice," she said, suddenly impatient. "It gives ye a greater range. And at least a bit of control, so ye have some notion how far ye're going. How did ye get to and fro three times, without blood?

I thought he'd have an apoplexy on the spot," Grey said, lips twitching. "Likely wishes he had." Grey looked at Tom, Tom at Grey, and they burst into suffocated snorts of laughter at the memory of the Honorable Mr. Braythwaite's face on this occasion. "Come, come," Lord John said, getting himself under control. "This will never do. Have you—

My Son-in-law astutely observes that a Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

that a Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

as strong as lust, was the desire simply to be taken, to have him master me, quell my doubts in a moment of rough usage, take me hard and swiftly enough to make me forget myself.

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

I think associate director jobs are the best in the world, because you can do what you want and not have to take responsibility for it!

I've learned so much between Atlantic, Slip-N-Slide and EMI to know how to control and do my own business.

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

I do not attempt to orchestrate my career. I let God do that.

Personally, even though I have a great PR team, no one except my husband and I touch any of my 10 social media accounts. It's a lot of work, but I know that my brand, my image, and my voice are authentic to me.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

I just don't like authority. I do like authority when I respect it.

What we need is a government with authority but without authoritarianism.

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

Everywhere in life people are in authority to make decisions and you have to abide by them, whether right or wrong.

I was authorized to do everything that I did.

'Amy' is somewhere in the middle of authorized and unauthorized.

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.