Quotes About Control

Well," I said, "you obviously have some power. You chased off those hooligans with rotten fruit. Perhaps you have banana-kinesis? Or you can control garbage? I once knew a Roman goddess, Cloacina, who presided over the city's sewer system. Perhaps you're related…?" Meg pouted. I got the impression I might have said something wrong, though I couldn't imagine what.

My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine.

Why do you not disintegrate? Tartarus mused. You are nothing. You are even weaker than Krios and Hyperion. "I am Bob," said Bob. Tartarus hissed. What is that? What is Bob? "I choose to be more than Iapetus," said the Titan. "You do not control me. I am not like my brothers.

Not all powers are spectacular. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the details. That's how we rebel against destiny, how we make our own mark.

We einherjar know we are destined to die. The world will end. The big picture cannot be changed. But in the meantime, as Loki once said, we can choose to alter the details. That's how we take control of our destiny. Sometimes even Loki can be right.

Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434).

Tyrants are not easy to oppose or walk away from, especially when you depend on them for everything.

Put Jesus Christ in the driver's seat of your life and take your hands off the steering wheel.

God does not play dice. ALBERT EINSTEIN

The most difficult area to surrender for many people is their money.

There are three barriers that block our total surrender to God: fear, pride, and confusion. We don't realize how much God loves us, we want to control our own lives, and we misunderstand the meaning of surrender.

You know you're surrendered to God when you rely on God to work things out instead of trying to manipulate others, force your agenda, and control the situation. You let go and let God work. You don't have to always be "in charge." The Bible says, "Surrender yourself to the Lord, and wait patiently for him.

Many people are driven by guilt. They spend their entire lives running from regrets and hiding their shame. Guilt-driven people are manipulated by memories. They allow their past to control their future. They often unconsciously punish themselves by sabotaging their own success.

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

You know you're surrendered to God when you rely on God to work things out instead of trying to manipulate others, force your agenda, and control the situation. You let go and let God work.

I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone. Being controlled by the opinions of others is a guaranteed way to miss God's purposes for your life.

Because God is sovereignly in control, accidents are just incidents in God's good plan for you.

Many people are driven by the need for approval. They allow the expectations of parents or spouses or children or teachers or friends to control their lives. Many adults are still trying to earn the approval of unpleasable parents. Others are driven by peer pressure, always worried by what others might think. Unfortunately, those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power.

A garden, as far as Teddy could see, was nature tamed and constrained by artifice.

i will be the hunter, not the hunted. diana, not the stag. the arrow, not the bow.

Once, the eye of God watched people, now it was the camera lens.

Police weren't like vampires, they didn't wait to be invited in.