Quotes About Control

strong emotions can seem as if they are part of the environment rather than part of us. It's not that I was angry, we think, it's that the situation was tense. But situations are not

After observing O Sensei, the founder of Aikido, sparring with an accomplished fighter, a young student said to the master, "You never lose your balance. What is your secret?" "You are wrong," O Sensei replied. "I am constantly losing my balance. My skill lies in my ability to regain it.

Are you the owner of this car? A cop has something you don't have, something you gave him earlier. No, I'm just delivering it to Oklahoma City for a lady. Do you have plates for this car? A cop needn't be vicious, but he can be so, safely. Just those stickers. Do you have the registration? Presidents and premiers can annihilate millions, but only a cop can explain away your solitary murder.

Socialists know that as long as the family remains strong, socialism cannot flourish. So, there's an ongoing attempt to subjugate the home to the government.

You are the king, the ruler of your world for you are one with God.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

You can't change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

Only you can control your future.

The strong always stepped forward; the weak had no choice but to follow.

Set wasn't interested in ruling the galaxy. Or destroying the Jedi. It sounded like a lot of work.

Two there should be; no more, no less. One to embody the power, the other to crave it. The Rule of Two. This

I'm not a kid," Zannah said as she pulled the trigger. "I'm a Sith.

Faith isn't denying the reality of your circumstances; faith is denying these circumstances the right to remain in control of your life.

Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.

Worry is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.

Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.

Any apparent somewhere which you may inhabit is always at the mercy of a ruthless and omnivorous everywhere.

But the institutional mind has only one mental operation: It abhors truth.

Dimmi, Homer, possiamo davvero dirci liberi, se lo siamo solo quando ce lo permettono? (pag. 98)

A paradox is simply an error out of control; i.e. one that has trapped so many unwary minds that it has gone public, become institutionalized in our literature, and taught as truth.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

If you have ever been in a life-or-death emergency situation, you will know that it wasn't a problem. The mind didn't have time to fool around and make it into a problem. In a true emergency, the mind stops; you become totally present in the Now, and something infinitely more powerful takes over.