Quotes About Control

A quick mind is worthless unless you can control the emotions with it as well.

If one plays on fear, takes away any remotely complicated ideas, and offers people a sense of confidence and right, one's followers will beat to death any enemy they are pointed at.

I need no distraction, Russell," he said curtly. "I believe I have already told you that a mind which cannot control its body's emotional reactions is no mind worth having.

When we get out of here," I said, "I know you're angry, but don't kill him. You can hurt him, though. Hurting is fine.

all six of them a license." "That

First the man takes a drink, as one hears it said, and then the drink takes a drink. And even if that's where it stops, before the third step of and then the drink takes the man

If your happiness depends on someone else, all they have to do is pull the rug out from under you and you're miserable.

All it knows is, if the person doesn't do what you want them to do, beat them up, disapprove of them, send some negative energy their way, ridicule them. This is our idea of love: Do what I want you to do and I'll love you. Don't do what I want you to do and I'll have nothing to do with you. That approach isn't working for you, is it?

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

We're in a world that is run by accountants and I think that it's sad in many ways.

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.

Oil runs America and it's the sad reality.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Skull and Bones" A secret society of spoiled twits whose apparent purpose in life is littering the landscape with as many as possible.

I tried to fight the panic and force it back down to where it had come from.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Government" Like a mafia protection racket-without the protection.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.