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Quotes About Control

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
~ Samuel Butler
It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
~ Bertrand Russell
The gift of prayer is not always at our command.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Prayer puts God's work in His hands-and keeps it there.
~ E. M. Bounds
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
~ Oswald Chambers
Dogs are animals that poop in public and you're supposed to pick it up. After a week of doing this, you've got to ask yourself, "Who's the real master in this relationship?"
~ Anthony Griffin
Anything under God's control is never out of control.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
He that cannot obey, cannot command.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.
~ Michael Parenti
You are the Master, the mind is your servant. That is the correct relationship.
~ Mooji
Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.
~ Ian Hacking
I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!
~ Bill Cosby, Himself
The person that loves the least, controls the relationship
~ Zane
Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.
~ Chuck Klosterman
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?
~ Ward Churchill
Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.
~ Groucho Marx
If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
~ Abraham Lincoln
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
~ Jack Anderson
The game, the game: here we go again. All glory to it, all things I am and own because of Roller Ball Murder.
~ William Neal Harrison
He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.
~ William Nicholson