Quotes About Control

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

Your powers don't work in the rain do they? A little bit of water and your fire fizzles out? So Little Miss Perfect does have a weakness after all!

They're terrified of us Firefly, all of them are.""Well, good, " I replied, forming a tiny ball of flames in my fingertips, which were curled round the handle on the back of the bike. "They should be.

But I could control these flames. It was an irresistible urge, one that I didn't want to ignore. - Aurora

If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know.

The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.

In my experience, influence is power.

He who despises his own life is soon master of another's.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

Power is like a woman you want to stay in bed with forever.

Power tends to connect absolute power connects absolutely.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

Nothing's ever too fast. Maybe sometimes on the road some people are too fast if they don't know how to control the car, but in racing, the faster and more power and grip, the better it is.

Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.

A church that likes power likes prayer.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.