Quotes About Control

A cocked .38 doesn't feel the same as an unprimed revolver. The frame tightens differently, the trigger is on a hair and this tension is communicated to you and the people around you.

Jack didn't happen to me: I happened to Jack.

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

and they still control the world, and you are not in my arms.

When relationships are determined by manipulation, by the need for control, they may possess a dreary, bickering kind of drama, but they cease to be interesting. They are repetitious; the shock of human possibilities has ceased to reverberate through them.

There is nothing North Americans seem to fear so much as manipulation, probably because at some level we know that we belong to a deeply manipulative system.

a precise, detached calliper-grip holds the stars and the quarter-                           moon in arrest:

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

The guy who wants to spend all his time with you may seem romantic, but he's also the guy who'll try to stop you from doing anything that doesn't involve him. If he presses you to ditch hobbies, passions, and friends, it's time to ditch him.

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

People - and I think this is particularly true of Americans - don't like to be passive. They like to seize control.

I'm a military brat; my mother's a pastor. There's been a lot of order in my life that I don't have control over, that I just dedicate myself to.

Pastry chefs are very particular people - we like a controlled environment; we don't like an audience.

I have negative feelings towards Pat Curran, but I can't let it affect me during the fight. I won't use my anger during the fight. If he thinks he will make get emotional during the fight, he's dead wrong.

I don't really have control over my path - only the Lord does - but I do have control over my decisions.

It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.

Every country in history that has gone down dark paths, where governments take on too much control and really intervene and take away those freedoms, often start with an attack on the freedom to disagree.