Quotes About Control

She could do to me with one eyebrow what two weeks without water can do to a plant.

He was asking for it, and he basically made me do it, and I just weren't powerful enough to hold back the surge that took me over. Blaming me is like blaming the sky for raining.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

Liberty, in so far as it is of any value, always means self-control in both the senses of that term: in the sense that we are only controlled by ourselves, and also in the sense that by ourselves we are controlled, and that every part of our nature is subservient to the purpose to which our whole nature is given.

As you open up your life to the Spirit's control, you do not get more of the Spirit, but He gets more of you.

It's easy to imagine a world in which genes have control over our minds, and for many animals they do. But once we took the evolutionary pathway toward greater intelligence and a lifestyle that relies on learning rather than inborn knowledge, our genes had no choice but to relinquish much of their control.

In practice, often 12 political officers, 100 British soldiers, and 800 paramilitary personnel controlled 10 million people, with the nearest regular force lying 1,000 miles away. From 1924 to 1937, 10,000 regular personnel and 200 aircraft controlled half the Middle East; 8,000 colonial troops governed British Africa; and only 45,000 European soldiers garrisoned India. Never

Freedom is control in your own life.

I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them

People generally can not believe themselves so easily manipulated and controllable. This is precisely why they are so easy to manpulate and contol.

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

The need to break her, to make her move to the touch of his harness, pumped through him like hot blood and bile. No

when you drank, you lost control of your spirit. You had no power and no connection to Power.

All day long, you are selectively paying attention to something, and much more often than you may suspect, you can take charge of this process to good effect. Indeed, your ability to focus on this and suppress that is the key to controlling your experience and, ultimately, your well-being.

One crucial fact often gets overlooked in laments about the electronic assault on your ability to focus: your machines are not in charge of what you attend to—you are. When they prove distracting, you have only to turn them off.

La capacidad de dirigir el pensamiento a voluntad te proporciona un gran poder, porque te ayuda a evitar las emociones negativas cuando aparecen».

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?

Stalin's opinion on the subject boiled down to this: "Education is a dangerous weapon, whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands, and at whom it is aimed.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Entonces el destino del que tanto hablaban los ases era algo que ellos habían predeterminado por él y no él mismo.

Hayekian democracy serves the function of making a capitalist market society appear to be 'the people's choice' even though it has long been removed from democratic control.