Quotes About Control

Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

U.K. Athletics needs to develop a financial independence so it no longer has to be subject to the whim of politicians. If you are reliant on government, there is a big problem.

I've been wanting to produce for some time because I want to have more creative control over the things that I do and not be victim to the whims of other people's desires.

It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a writer, you are in control.

I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim.

I don't like the idea that Facebook controls how people express themselves and changes it periodically according to whatever algorithms they use to figure out what they should do or the whim of some programmer or some CEO. That bothers me a great deal.

A huge portion of our lives involves the surrender of our freedom and personal autonomy. It is time in which we are directed by the needs and whims of others, and denied the right to make our own choices.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

I don't like people being negative, whining, or moaning. If you're in a situation you're not in control of, just change.

Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good.

I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.

Sometimes we'd have to climb a tree and pick our own whips to be disciplined with. When you had to pick your own whip, you knew you were in for it.

Make a conscious effort to loosen your hands and let your arms feel soft when you're at address. Take the club back a bit shorter, and feel as if you're cracking a whip on the way down - not tensing up to smash something hard.

When you use the whip, it makes the loudest crack. It's a very, very difficult weapon to use.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

Everything happened relatively quickly in our rise to the top. But we were like robots. We were told what to do and we just did it. We didn't have time to look inside ourselves. It was all just a constant whirlwind.

When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.