Quotes About Control

Revealed for what they are, thoughts lose their power. Watching them come and go, dissolving as easily as they arose, you have a choice about what you pay attention to and what you disregard. They have power only to the extent that you give it to them.

If you take a bigger perspective, letting them come and go, they don't hold such power over you.

was always taught that the man is the master of the house and you just accept what he wants.

Influential theologian J. Gresham Machen perhaps said it best: False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the Gospel. We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation to be controlled by ideas which prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion. (Machen, CC, 7)

swatting at the bees only makes them angrier.

It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.

Dr. Banner, your work is unparalleled. And I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous, green rage monster.

I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It's like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!

There's so much you thought you could never face. The decision not to try to control your power, to let it be your demon. Too shameful to remember, so you let it eat your life up instead. But you're past it now, Scott. And all you had to defeat, all you had to let go of...was you. You're free, my love. You're free.

I've Got Him! You've got to keep at her. Forget all your training--she's fought you a thousand times. Don't presume to run my team, you little tart- (Colossus throws Emma at Danger) Yes. I see how it works. Normally, I wouldn't have done that.

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.

I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.

Katya laughed and shrugged. She was a hired girl; she said such things on order. Much of her life was this sort of semiskilled playing to other people, usually older people, with the hope of making them like her; making them feel that she was valuable to them; wresting some of their power from them, if but fleetingly. It was like provoking a boy or a man to want you. That could be risky, as Katya well knew.

The power of a parent to wound, to kill. The power of a parent is terrible.

Mom's new husband was eleven years older than Mom. He had been Mom's boss at the Buick dealership where she'd worked until they were married, and you could see that he was still Mom's boss—the way he spoke to her, not exactly giving orders, never forgetting to say Please but in a tone of voice that meant there was no negotiating. Of

She realizes: the man's power is to intimidate, to make you ashamed. But your power over him is the power of laughter.

always, you want to impress them: men of authority)

For that was mom's trump card: she was the mother, and so possessed a mysterious and unquestioned authority. Dad was the boss, but Mom was the power.

Momma was terrified of being really poor, dirt-poor, and men would know, always men can sniff out the degree of your desperation Momma believed, and force you to do things you don't want to do or don't exactly want to do at that time or in that place or in that way. When you have your own money, Momma said, you have power. But you can lose it Goddamned fast.

No ha sucedido nada que tú no quisieras y pidieras. »Así que cierra el pico. ¿Entendido?» La había zarandeado, con fuerza. Para que dejara de llorar, de sollozar. De atragantarse y vomitar. El hedor que impregnaba su coche le puso furioso.

Politics, the negotiating of power. Eros, the negotiating of power.

When you said Please to those who...had no option but to obey, what were you really saying?

Satan can control you if you let outward things determine your security.

Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!