Quotes About Control

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.

Feeling are like three-year-olds. They're not rational. They're just there.

Nem mindig rajtunk múlik, milyen véget érnek a dolgok.

Men give women the power that they themselves don't want.

It's like we kept trying to use the same rules," Greer said, "and these people kept saying to us, 'Don't you get it? I will not live by your rules.'" She took a breath. "They always get to set the terms. I mean, they just come in and set them. They don't ask, they just do it. It's still true.

This is my body, and I can make it do things. I can make it spin, flip, fly.

When you have nothing inside you, you feel everything more, and feel you can control it all.

In this life," she said, crossing these glorious gams, shimmering in the filmy light, "you can't let your guard down. If you can control yourself, you can control everyone else.

He looked like he could tie a knot in a fire poker, eat it, and crap it out straight.

You can't let your guard down. If you can control yourself, you can control everyone else.

And no sound from outside or anywhere. That must be the thing when you have money, I think. You never have to hear anything you don't want to, ever.

When you have nothing inside you, you feel everything more, and feel you can control all of it.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

The Bible was written by man to serve his own ends. Like society. Like the church. We use such things to control one another, but what right do we have to do so?

Desire made fools of us all, did it not? What was more controlling than unconsummated desire? What but wanting sent men on fatal quests or led them to begin senseless wars? What else led to thievery or murder? It wasn't desire that was the enemy, but the inability to assuage it. Desire was only an emotion. It was no more evil than love.

Sometimes I think I'll never really belong anywhere, or trust anyone. I think I need to learn how to stop caring about that." "You can't decide not to care," Sean said. "You can only control your response." "Is that really possible?" I asked. "It really is," he said. "It even starts to get a little bit easier." "Really?" My voice sounded like a stranger's. "When?

The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now.

It was all about control, in the end, and I had it.

The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so the present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now. I'm the only one who does.

Don't use the buckle," she told him with a laugh, her eyes closed, head bent. "I haven't beaten a woman with my belt before, Simone. That doesn't mean I don't have any clue about how to do it.

my voice firm as I took charge. Keeping the surface polished.

Yep. All of it. If you want to show me into the basement first, I can take care of you from the ground up." Oh, I bet you could, Ginny thought. Top to toe too. She bit the inside of her cheek to keep a straight face and pointed down the hall.

Illness "controlled her without making her feel that her liberty was invaded,