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Quotes About Control

The family is the American fascism.
~ Paul Goodman
I may be the baby of the family, but that doesn't mean I don't get to boss people around.
~ Tamar Braxton
Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]
~ Aristotle
I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
~ Viggo Mortensen
Family - see Fascist State.
~ Benito Mussolini
My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.
~ Maya Angelou
If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?
~ Mary Astell
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.
~ Thomas Paine
I had a very famous trainer tell me once, You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever. They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
~ Jack Hanna
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
~ Lionel Trilling
Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.
~ Joy Browne
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.
~ Honore de Balzac
Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
~ Janet E. Morris
Being completely in control is a fantasy.
~ Ross W. Greene
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
I intend to make you scream for me, Riley.
~ Unknown
Gabriel: What's the point of having power, if one cannot use it? What's the point of immortality, if one cannot truly live?
~ A.J. Flowers, Fallen to Grace
You can't order me away, you pissant human--" "I just did." Kas swept past him...
~ Susan Scott, Dragons Will Fall
We die, you die. You die, we survive. I think there's a pecking order in that, don't you?
~ Unknown
Here was the puppeteer who was pulling strings all over the Empire. Didn't he know that the Fates were the only ones who could tweak the threads of destiny?
~ Unknown
These words you want to remember: if you do not learn to control the power within you, it will consume more than just your enemy.
~ Unknown
You don't just... just float someone in the air like that!" she shouted, so beside herself she was almost frenzied."Why? Is there some human law against it?
~ Unknown
Reo Malone - "You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
~ Unknown
My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.
~ Jared Kushner