Quotes About Control

Anything I've ever tried to keep by force I've lost.

Los perversos narcisistas son los que más miedo les tienen a los demás. Para ellos, todas las personas a las que no consiguen seducir o someter son potencialmente peligrosas.

Everyone needs to take control of his or her own life by making sense of it. It doesn't matter how conventional or unconventional that process is.

The sheer intensity of a child's feelings means they cannot be repressed without severe consequences. The thicker the prison wall grow, says Miller, the more future emotional development is impeded. When that wall is especially impenetrable, and the pain behind it is overwhelming, cutting is the strategy some use to try to break through and achieve some sense of control.

Cutting and eating disorders serve such deep-seated psychological and physiological needs that to treat only the symptoms—by force feeding or hiding all sharp implements—will generally only set up a power struggle between parent and child, patient and therapist. If the coping strategy one has depended on for so long is suddenly taken away, a cutter or anorexic or bulimic will feel even more overwhelmed and out of control as years of suppressed emotions come roaring to the surface.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

All men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.

I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

Dominion won by fear and secured by fear was still sweeter than any that could be got another way.

Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.

One must feel fear without allowing fear to control them.

Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

Fear, " she says, "is more powerful than pain.

I hope he doesn't know he just touched my leg.And nothing happened.

If you believe it, it happens. If you don't, it doesn't. When you believe him, you put your own power in his hands.

Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does.

If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better

As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.

Feelings don't follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.

Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go?

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.