Quotes About Control

The past is behind you and there is nothing you can do to change it. However, you are in total control of your future.

Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation

Extreme emotion destroys wealth. Anything that you are infatuated with, or resent, rules you. If you get elated or depressed, the emotions rule you. It's smart to have strategies that override extreme emotions. Money is made, grown and given from strategies, not emotions. Many people will tell you that the purpose of life is happiness, but in the extreme, happiness is an emotion and will cost you money. Polarized emotions, at either extreme, cost you money.

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.

Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.

And who died and made you boss?" But I knew a lost cause when I saw it and was already pulling my hair back with nimble fingers. Niko slapped a shoulder holster against my chest. "No one. Like all truly great dictators, I seized that power myself. Now finish up. We leave in five minutes.

I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away

I didnt loose my mind, it was mine to give away

Automobiles are not ferocious.... it is man who is to be feared.

God schedules a birthday, not man.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will";

What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

democratic theory is concerned with processes by which ordinary citizens exert a relatively high degree of control over leaders;

They're really not trying to protect anyone from harm, they're just trying to keep their world smooth and under control. I

handing his paycheck over to Susan to control, he began giving himself an allowance to spend how he

The human race divides itself politically into those who want to be controlled, and those who have no such desire

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category within the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.'

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

Things mechanical are like the ladies,' continued Toby. 'You need to understand their ways. If you understand them, they'll do what you want from the start. If you don't, they've got you. And then God help you.

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

Worry comes from the belief you are powerless.