Quotes About Control

I can think of nothing more horrible than an orchestra that has gone out of control at rehearsal. I wouldn't wish it on an enemy.

Glazunov was the first to convince me that a composer must make the performers submit to his will, and not the other way around (...) The composer must orchestrate in the way he conceived his work, and not simplify his orchestration to please the performers.

So many unsaid things collect in the soul, so much exhaustion and irritation lie as a heavy burden on the psyche. And you must, you must unburden your spiritual world or risk a collapse. Sometimes you feel like screaming, but you control yourself and just babble some nonsense.

Dear Lord put your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth .

Resistance is useless.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I've often said I don't lose my temper as much as use it. I don't do either unless I have to because I love peace and harmony, but when you step in my territory, I will call you on it.

It is like a kingdom. It is the same old thing, just a different name, to keep the peasants in line. A system of the higher ups against the little people. They believe that there is only their God, and that all the others are evil. That there is only one way to be good, and that is the way they teach. And if you do not follow their instructions you will be damned for eternity.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.

I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

Money is a good servant, but a poor master.

In time he found that all his perceptions were subject to the same easy control

The more she thought abut it, the more she realized how many of her choices and decisions were really based on some form of fear—the fear of the unknown, the unseen, her future, and fear of…destiny.

Those who first acquired language and tried to think the human situation were utterly overwhelmed. They could cope only by imagining that there were greater invisible beings who could and did understand and control both the human psyche and the world. 'I can't make sense of it, but I have to believe that there is a larger perspective within which it all makes sense.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Magical ability is the ability to consciously use the so-called unconscious.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.

Fate's book, but my italics.

When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.

The NRA assholes will tell you that "guns don't kill people, people do." Yeah, Malone thinks, people with guns.