Quotes About Control

We design our lives through the power of choices.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Habit is necessary to give power.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind

I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.

Change your story, change your power.

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?

As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.

Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

Never give power of attorney.

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.

What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

Principles have a way of yielding to power.