Quotes About Control

WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS TO US THAN WHAT HAPPENS TO US. HAPPINESS DOES NOT DEPEND ON WHAT HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF YOU BUT ON WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE OF YOU.

She liked to be in the thick of things and did not delegate easily, except where domestic chores were concerned.

Her checkbook catches his eye. He takes it and hides it in the back of the freezer, underneath a bag of frozen lima beans. If she can freeze his account, he can freeze hers.

The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air.

the empire created the emperors – not the other way round.

Two central tenets of Republican government were that office holding should always be temporary and that, except in emergencies when one man might need to take control for a short while, power should always be shared.

We have to be more reflective about what power is, what it is for

He divided the people in this way to ensure that voting power was under the control not of the rabble but of the wealthy, and he saw to it that the greatest number did not have the greatest power – a principle that we should always stand by in politics.

When you are about to hand control of the senate and people of Rome, the armies, the provinces, the allies to one man alone, would you look to the belly of a wife to produce him or search for an heir to supreme power only within the walls of your own home? … If he is to rule over all, he must be chosen from all.' Tacitus

There was one obligation that the Romans imposed on all those who came under their control: namely, to provide troops for the Roman armies.

He spotted, for example, the importance of religion, or 'fear of the gods', in controlling Roman behaviour

they create desolation and call it peace'

The secret, Polybius suggested, lay in a delicate relationship of checks and balances between consuls, the senate and the people, so that neither monarchy nor aristocracy nor democracy ever entirely prevailed.

Cicero reflects exactly that when he sums up Servius Tullius' political objectives in approving tones: 'He divided the people in this way to ensure that voting power was under the control not of the rabble but of the wealthy, and he saw to it that the greatest number did not have the greatest power – a principle that we should always stand by in politics.

Autocracy represented, in a sense, an end of history.

Mais pour regner il faut se taire.

Red leaned down so his nose almost touched hers and bellowed, "You should be worried! You're losing all of them! You are going to mind me, woman!

Cold control sleeted in his veins as he drew his gun, leveled

The past cannot be changed, the future is still in your power

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

It's my world, you all just live in it.