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Quotes About Control

Nobody can make you happy or unhappy except you.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
The creator created women to control those wild, uncontrollable, intriguing men.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
Your ability is your power. Other's opinions can make it sour.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
Tragedy admires man. Comedy feels a bit sorry for him.' We think we are kings or queens, masters of the universe or at least our own destiny. We forget that a foot may crush us, or that the wind may knock us down. We are not in control. We are subject to gas and sloughing skin and dirty pores. Most of our joints will eventually fail us. We have big brains which we can imagine great things, but we can't really get off the ground. It's like we have wings but we can't fly.
~ Debbie Blue
There are no accidents in my experience," she said. "Just plans other people make and don't tell you about.
~ Debbie Viguié
In her youth, she had wanted to control her own life, something with which she still struggled, but as she glanced around the marketplace, she was overcome with a renewed appreciation for these good people who put God first.
~ Debby Giusti
Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.
~ Deborah
I had lost my connection with the universal energy and gained in its place precognition, visions, and a healing gift I could not control.
~ Deborah Blake
man can live or work far beyond the earth's atmosphere … the first nation to do this will control the earth.
~ Deborah Cadbury
A ruthless foe established on a space station could actually subjugate the peoples of the world,
~ Deborah Cadbury
What he wanted was his own small universe, house and garden, a world he could control, an order he could impose.
~ Deborah Crombie
Ultimately, to promote attachment, a great deal of control has to be taken from children.
~ Deborah D. Gray
Practice Compliance Children can be given five-minute sessions in which they do things that their parents ask them to do. This time is structured, fun, and filled with praise. It resembles the "Simon Says" game. Children do what parents say, and get lots of attention. This game starts to redefine what it means when parents are in charge. Instead of feeling like they are losing, children find that it feels silly, non-threatening, and fun. This starts to redefine control.
~ Deborah D. Gray
Today vegetables. Tomorrow...the world!
~ Deborah Howe
The implications of such science are life-changing, because it tells us that what we eat each day affects not only our health but that of our children and children's children—for better or worse. We have control over our health and whether we bring our children into the world with genetically coded health advantages—or not.
~ Deborah Kesten
How do we set about not imagining something?
~ Deborah Levy
The truth was her husband had the final word because he wrote words and then he put full stops at the end of them. She knew this, but what did his wife know?
~ Deborah Levy
Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape. A tree cannot be given form by the vagaries of the wind.
~ Deborah Levy
One day during an event in which the Philistines were making sport of him, he stood between two temple pillars, prayed for one last infusion of supernatural strength, and literally brought the house down (see JUDGES 16). The collapsing structure killed him and more than 3000 spectators and government officials. This was the tragic end of a strong man who was weakened by a manipulative woman. Manipulation can destroy not only a relationship but also a person's life.
~ Deborah Smith Pegues
a lack of influence is of course its own kind of influence.
~ Deborah Solomon
Femeia este o divinitate, o stea care controleaz? toate ideile din mintea b?rbatului
~ Debra Finerman
Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.
~ Debra Messing
Reality, it is true, has a lot to answer for, so on the whole we make sure we don't live there. We cannot control reality, but we can control our fantasies. Except our fantasies don't exist; so we're not really controlling anything at all. But the illusion of control is deeply reassuring. And the price we pay for this reassurance is unimaginable.
~ Declan Donnellan