Quotes About Control

Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.

I'll just stay ten feet away from him at all times so I don't accidentally trip and fall and land lips first on his mouth.

If you drink anymore, you're going to be positively flammable.

Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.

Oh, for the love of God. There is no agent more agent than you. I swear you have pin-striped ties encrypted into your DNA. When you die, the coffin is going to read Property of the FBI.

But this bus was a bit too full. The driver only appeared to control the glass and metal around him. In reality, he was at the nose of a travelling paroxysm.

Instead of hopping around like a wild in'jun on fire, try counting from 10 backwards while hopping on one foot".

He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he would have pointed out that this was a reasonable assumption.

Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.

Homeowners' Association: the means whereby people who own homes are able to transfer their rights to the neighborhood control freaks.

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.

My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.

Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.