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Quotes About Control

Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
~ Democritus
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
~ Demosthenes
I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.
~ Denis Johnson
Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.
~ Denis Johnson
Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... They are the dictator inside ourselves.
~ Denis Villeneuve
You are either the captain or the captive of your thoughts.
~ Denis Waitley
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
~ Denis Waitley
Turning in his saddle, Theobald looked at the servants behind them. "We ride on through. If any man reaches for you, kill him." Then without so much as a by-your-leave, he leaned over and snatched Johanna's reins from her grasp, and spurred his horse into motion. As her palfrey complacently followed where he led, Johanna turned her gaze downward to glare at the saddletree and indulged herself in hatred—for him, for his master, but mostly for this
~ Denise Domning
The solution to the feral cats that already exist is the one no one wants to hear: accepting the fact that feral cats will live among us, and taking responsibility for controlling their numbers by trapping, neutering, and returning them to their outdoor territories.
~ Denise Flaim
I'm not trying to take your freedom. God knows you deserve it after being married to that monster. I don't want to trap you or hold you back or control you." He gently cupped her face. "I only want to love you, honey.
~ Denise Hunter
Beau was going to have a cow. But when did Beau's opinion ever keep Zac from doing what he wanted?
~ Denise Hunter
Maybe he should go after her. Maybe he hadn't tried hard enough. Maybe she was missing him as much as he missed her. Finding her would be a challenge, but that had never stopped him before. Surely she'd left a forwarding address with the post office. But no. That's what her psycho, controlling late husband would have done: hunt her down. She needed to be free to make her own choice. And she had.
~ Denise Hunter
The military may have been in charge, but the irrepressible life force that is woman—that was well beyond their control. The only thing that would be temporary was the war.
~ Denise Kiernan
that she uses them to control her friends. Now he
~ Denise Mina
He stopped at an intersection, panting, rubbing at the twinge in his hamstrings, looking around, though he knew no cars were coming in either direction. Dropping forward at the waist Martin admitted that he was fucking himself up. Dr Leonowsky told him: hurting yourself is an articulation of self-disgust. It helps no one, prevents nothing. This wasn't a glorious loss of control, he was fooling himself, it was self-harm.
~ Denise Mina
Try not to let your mind wander ... it's too small and fragile to be out by itself.
~ Denise Swanson
Contrary to popular belief, no one owes you anything. Even your folks have met their obligations once you reach eighteen," Dani pointed out. "You could always refuse." "Not really." Red flooded Starr's face. "We have three choices. The dorm. You and Spence. Or no more money from our parents." "Yep." Ivy snickered. "They have us by the checkbook.
~ Denise Swanson
There's nothing to get. It's the law. Skye's hold on her temper slipped. I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
~ Denise Swanson
The brain is the organ and instrument of the mind, and controls the whole body. In order for the other parts of the system to be healthy, the brain must be healthy. And in order for the brain to be healthy, the blood must be pure.
~ Dennis E. Smith
Eliminate the thinkers and you control the population. That's the real reason no one knows how to read and why we live in chaos
~ Dennis Foon
The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.
~ Dennis L. Bark
Asked about press coverage, he blithely assured them, "Don't worry—I'll meet with the editors and tell them to cool it.
~ Dennis L. Breo
How empire permeates!
~ Dennis Lee
The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it?
~ Dennis Lehane