Quotes About Control

emotions can frequently hurt and cripple, until you begin to grasp that you are their source and thus their master.

Please don't confuse random with spontaneous. Spontaneous rocks. It emerges from a field of probabilities that you control, maintaining choice and meaning. It involves instinct and urge, hunches and feelings, imagination and belief. Random implies the opposite. Empty and pointless. Maybe or maybe not. Chance and luck.

Many of us are religious precisely to keep us from trusting God. We go to church, we give money, and we do all the right things--in the hope that God will never puts us in a position where we actually have to trust him.

I shuddered at the thought and from that point on did my best to stop thinking.

There are a few monopolies that are allowed to exist with the government's blessing. One is the United States Postal Service, better known as the post pffice.

It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

Maybe madmen always rule. Maybe that's all there are.

We still couldn't use "ass" any way we pleased. In one script, we had the phrase "up his ass"; Fox censors asked us to change it to "in his ass." That seemed worse, but we did as they asked.

He runs City Hall like a small family business and keeps everybody on a short rein. They do only that which they know is safe and that which he tells them to do. So many things that should logically be solved several rungs below finally come to him.

The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.

turned around and walked out, fighting an almost overpowering urge to tear up the check and

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.

The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.

Life reveals itself in ways you cannot control or predict, so allow yourself to mourn that plans are not going according to schedule, but don't let it stop you from moving. Life has surprises in store for you if you just keep walking.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual's natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they're responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet.

In the end, your belly was your emperor.

His Presbyterian minster father had believed in a divine design, and Mozasu believed that life was like this game where the player could adjust the dials yet also expect the uncertainty of factors he couldn't control. He understood why his customers wanted to play something that looked fixed but which also left room for randomness and hope.

But a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet.